[Milsurplus] RE: [armyradios] [OT] How we'll win in Iraq and Afghanistan

[WF2U]

John (jwatkins) obviously didn't read the article he's writing about. If he
read it (and understood), T. E. Lawrence was complaining about the
incompetence of the British civil authorities in Mesopotamia (as today's
Iraq was called then by the British) who ran it not in accordance with the
official British policies, oppressing the local population and exploiting
the resources for their own benefit.
Reading the article will show that there are no discernible parallels with
today's situation. Lawrence refers to a colonial goverment running
uncontrolled by the Foreign Ministry in London, whereas today they have a
government elected by free elections.


And just FYI John, we WON in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Afghanis and the
Iraqis won as well - they have ELECTED governments.
As to the military still being  there,  - we still have troops in Europe,
and the Far East - how many years after we WON there too?

Back to green radios!

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

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> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] RE: [armyradios] [OT] How we'll win in Iraq
> andAfganistan
>
>
> Sorry, but actually that's wrong by almost a millennia.  This war didn't
> start after WW-I, but near the end of the 11th Century.  And it
> wasn't set into
> motion by the French or the British (who barely existed at the
> time), but by the
> original Mohammed, who wrote how to do it all down in great
> detail (in the
> Koran).  There have been numerous recent references to it as WW-III, but
> actually it is more correctly WW-0.  The longest running conflict
> on the planet.
>
> We now return you to your pleasantly running green radio program.
>
> In a message dated 12/23/2005 8:30:27 PM Central Standard Time,
> jwatkins at omantel.net.om writes:
> > It is interesting that "The Lawrence" (Lawrence of Arabia)
> wrote an article
> > (have it here somewhere) for the London Times in I believe 1921 or 22 in
> > which he laid out all of the problems that the British were
> having there.
> > Just change the dates and few names and Viola, 2005.  Amazing,
> but as been
> > said many times, those that don't learn from history are doomed
> to repeat
> > it.  Much of what is going on right now was set into motion by
> the British
> > and French after WW 1, and we are still trying to sort it out, a few new
> > players, but the same problems.
> >
> > Sorry for the off topic bandwidth, to get back to our radios
> >
>
>