Reply #16: Remember the scene at the beginning of "The Terminator"?

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There were robots attacking the humans with a robot tank rolling over a churned-up landscape of human remains and crushing a skull under its treads...

The forces of high-technology are now fighting the unarmored partisans in much the same way. With our troops body-armored, armed to the teeth and with sophisticated communications, the locals must look at their fighters as even more heroic in comparison. It's almost like the Saracen cavalry fighting armored Knights in the Crusades.

Oh, did I mention that the desecration crap sucks?