FORTY ONE DEAD

How long will America put up with one dead soldier per day in Iraq? Not long I'm betting.

Without doing reams of reading it doesn't take much to realize the difference between Iraq today and Nazi Germany and Emperor led Japan after WWII. Imagine this: The Twilight Zone 1943, the German army stops fighting and runs away or surrenders. No Stalingrads, Anzios, Omaha Beaches. They only lose around 6,000 men and all the rest of the Nazis go back to Germany and the Allies march in. An undefeated army of hard core Nazis with no jobs and no future looking for trouble. That is Iraq today.

In both of the WWII cases we had wiped out the youth of the countries, stamped out the ruling class, and wrecked their economies. There wasn't a "man left standing" in either country. Any old guy who served in Japan after WWII will tell you of the endless caves dug into every hillside in the country. Had the entire undefeated Japanese army been floating around the countryside in 1945 the war against Japan would not have been over for decades.

What we have in Iraq is the non-defeat of the ruling class and their army. This is major trouble. Anybody see a solution? An entire class of people made out like bandits under Saddam and they are all still out there WITHOUT jobs and filled with hate and fear; fear of what the rest of Iraq will do to them.

What a problem.