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When you turn cities into rubble and indiscriminately target civilians, only to find yourself bogged down in an asymmetric war.
Tangential but there’s a certain exchange from the Battle of Algiers movie I keep thinking of.
Journalist: M. Ben M'Hidi, don't you think it's a bit cowardly to use women's baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people?
Ben M'Hidi: And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.
I wonder what the Amerikkkans in Vietnam would've live tweeted if they had twitter back then
At least some of them had the decency to frag their cos
Israel would more or less collapse if it faced half the resistance from its own population (whether the soldiery or the civilians) that the US did in 1968.
Absolutely