Does this sound familiar?

[javaguru]

A Western power invades the Middle East winning a great victory fighting to the heart of Mesopotamia only to spend the next ten years quelling revolts and fighting their way out?

It happened circa 431 BC to the Greeks....
"Anabasis" written by Xenophon

 

[BlueBird]

Yep, war is cyclical as well as hell. I fully expect to avenge my family on Connemara, or hades.

 

[Longhorn85]

A Western power invades the Middle East winning a great victory fighting to the heart of Mesopotamia only to spend the next ten years quelling revolts and fighting their way out?

It happened circa 431 BC to the Greeks....
"Anabasis" written by Xenophon

Only 10 years? That means we have 5 more to go in Iraq which is less than many estimate.

 

[rnch]

"those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

 

[rnch]

Only 10 years? That means we have 5 more to go in Iraq which is less than many estimate.

small comfort to all the familes of brave, honorable American soldiers who wer murdered by a dishonorable commander-in-chief.

 

[javaguru]

Only 10 years? That means we have 5 more to go in Iraq which is less than many estimate.

But the insurgents won and they got back to Greece in time to fight in the
Peloponnesian War, Greek civil war.

 

[redsamurai]

who cares?? I'm going to repeat this till I'm blue in the face........it's all a big game you have no input on. Let america spend the next 100 years there.......who cares? I'm done with it. I give a fuck. All you're doing by caring is playing their game.

 

[timtim]

who cares?? I'm going to repeat this till I'm blue in the face........it's all a big game you have no input on. Let america spend the next 100 years there.......who cares? I'm done with it. I give a fuck. All you're doing by caring is playing their game.

remember something, alot of people are vested to iraq either with family members/friends currently fighting there, family members/friends who have returned but are changed, and family members/friends who never returned. war has a different face for those intimately attached to it. we all have to remember that.

 

[redsamurai]

remember something, alot of people are vested to iraq either with family members/friends currently fighting there, family members/friends who have returned but are changed, and family members/friends who never returned. war has a different face for those intimately attached to it. we all have to remember that.

I understand that, but those guys signed up to go shoot people......bottom line. I would venture that pretty close to 100% of the military joined up to go shoot people. So they got their wish. It's what they're trained for, it's probably what alot of wanted to do since they were kids.......so be it. Those soldiers are following "their" path. I personally would not choose to go to war for an inbred master like the U.S govt, but to each their own. They're playing out their "game"..........se la vie right?