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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Are we really comparing the military of the United States to some insurgents in Iraq and some guys living in a jungle?
The difference is weaponry. The U.S. has nukes. They have other big ass bombs. You can't beat them if they use them. I just don't see how you could possibly find a way for some guys armed with shotguns to defeat a government that can kill everyone in the country in a matter of minutes.
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Are you intentionally trying to misinterpret what I wrote? Obviously my point was that the United States military has had trouble defeating well armed insurgencies who are fighting on their own territory such as the Viet Cong and the Sunni militias in Iraq.
Furthermore the idea that the military would follow orders to drop nuclear weapons on US cities or carpet bomb US civilians without a major split in the military command structure is ridiculous. As I stated before, in the case of a major civil war the military would split among similar partisan lines as the population. Study your history.