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There are no "battles" in this "war". Nobody takes on the US forces directly; they know they will lose. So they snipe, they IED, they suicide bomb, they car bomb, they ambush. But nowhere are there battalions of armed forces taking on other battalions of armed forces.
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Welcome to Nam. Deja vue. Why did My Lai happen. Soldiers were so frustrated at their losses and no enemy to confront (fight). Iraq is no different. Deja vue Nam.
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Oh cool, we can avoid the recession created by the housing bubble.
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Too late. We already did that. Now, four to ten years later, we begin to reap what we used money games to avoid. Same is discussed in
Anyone scared about the economic crisis?. After years of pumping the economy with free money (low interest rates, tax cuts with massive spending increased, etc), we still have this history:
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But something changed in 2001, when the dotcom bubble burst. America's GDP growth since then has been weaker than in any cycle since the 1950s, ...
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as we pumped more easy money into the economy. With so much easy money, where is all this growth? Deja vue Nam is now called "Mission Accomplished".