Comment by SideburnsOfDoom
1 month ago
> the regime will fall, the invasion will prove breezy and popular among huge fraction of $CountryInvaded
When have we not heard this line? When has it even been true?
We always hear it, it's never true.
1 month ago
> the regime will fall, the invasion will prove breezy and popular among huge fraction of $CountryInvaded
When have we not heard this line? When has it even been true?
We always hear it, it's never true.
You are free to bookmark this and rub it in my face later.
Sure, though your prediction of "will prove breezy and popular" is something that takes years, or even a couple of decades to play out. e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq.
Be serious. Did you really scratch your head for years figuring if it was popular in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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It was actually true in Iraq. The US received no resistance and rapidly captured the entire country ("Mission Accomplished").
The problems started after...
> The problems started after...
So it did not eventually "prove breezy".