[lit-ideas] Re: A Question REALLY Answered
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:36:59 EST
Do they really want to be "trained" by the 'enemy'?
Would American soldiers in a similar position want to learn Sadaam's methods
of warfare?
Or Middle-Eastern methods minus the psychosis of Sadaam?
Just a question.
Cultural differences seem to be ignored. Maybe the way "we" train troops is
so vastly different from their assumed notions of warfare that they seem
useless or, worse, counter-productive?
How many hundreds of years has the Arab culture existed.
Imperialism just doesn't work, no matter what country, in whatever form, for
whatever misguided or self (country) centered reasons.
Let our troops learn a few hundred years of their fighting culture and see
how it goes.
Julie Krueger
wishing the world were not a global village.
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: A Question REALLY
Answered Date: 12/26/05 1:56:24 PM Central Standard Time From:
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--- Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's not easy to use a rifle scope
(cut)
> I think the problem for Iraqi is the general
> unfamiliarity with rifles. They probably don't
> go hunting. Shooting ranges and gun clubs probably
> don't exist.
Iraq had an army fully conversant with modern
weaponry. I'd say
a major problem now is that troops are being trained
in six weeks (here, it would be two years).
> > Is "Andy" saying that those people who choose to
> join Iraq's new
> > armed forces are different from their American
> counterparts in some
> > way: I.Q. or hand-eye co-ordination or willingness
> to listen and to
> > be subject to military discipline? What makes
> them "untrainable"?
Interesting questions, David.
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