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Originally Posted by dalem
I would think that American cultural mythos and the reality of a belief in personal responsibility and defense (at least a little over half of the country still  ) would preclude a lot of saying "uncle". I might not be able to hurt a tank with my collection of popguns, but I'd sure as sh!t try to go find somebody who could equip me, and do what they told me to do.
Also, I may not end up hoisting an AK and yelling "Wolverines!", but I can hide in the woods or mountains and be a pain in someone's occupying butt.
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And if for every occupying soldier that was killed, 100 American civilians were killed in return? How long could our population keep up that kind of exchange, even if we wanted too? I'm not saying that we wouldn't try, I'm just saying that we've never seen a mechanized occupation army, with the will to destroy large portions of the people they're occupying before. When 30 million of our citizens are dead, with no end in sight... how much longer could we keep up a war like that?