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Originally Posted by lwarmonger
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?
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You got a good point, many sources indicate that the Vietcong were unable to sucessfully operate by 1969 due to the casulties they had suffered. I would like to think that we would never give up and that we would fight to the last person in a "Red Dawn" type situation (as they did in the movie where all the Wolverines but like 1 or 2 were killed). But the reality is that, sadly, I think we would give up long before that, we only have so many people with weapons and the guts to do anything more then sit on their butt and watch tv or play on the computer. Also, most Americans only have acess to bolt action hunting rifles and pistols.... granted they may be able to take out a good number of the opposing forces but in the end, unless they can come up with better weaponry (like artillery, tanks, etc) and large numbers of trained troops they will be annilated.