Looks like Vietnam, sounds like Vietnam...

W.T.F. are we doing there...?

The US has been slow adapting to the military problems presented by insurgents, says the Observer. The insurgents, on the other hand, are characterized by American generals as being able to quickly adapt to changes in US strategy and equipment.

"The world's only superpower is in danger of being driven back by a few tens of thousands of lightly armed irregulars, who have developed tactics capable of destroying multimillion-dollar vehicles and aircraft," continues the article.

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Top US officials are describing foes in Iraq and Afghanistan as "smart, agile and cunning" and say the US is locked in a conflict that is the "biggest challenge since Korea 50 years ago."

korea...? how quickly they forget... this is precisely what was happening in vietnam, and, ya know what...? there is no way to defeat a determined insurgency, short of nuking the entire countryside and shaving the ground with a razor, which we aren't prepared to do, and which the world would condemn even more vociferously than the current illegal war...

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