W: "Leading a large coalition against a determined enemy"

[Carolab]

Just how large is "our" coalition? Anyone know? I didn't forget Poland--by the way, weren't they leaving? Who else is there? And how many of them are there?

[Dangerman]

1. Coalition of the willing morons.

They want to their asses shot by a army of resistance soldiers defending their country?

If you work WITH the Americans, you will be DEAD like the Americans.

[DireStrike]

2. Coalition of the hopeless and the brainwashed

The poor, the fundamentalists, the young men and women who just didn't have any other options. The repukes saw to that by murdering the economy.

[izzie]

3. The list was on here once. Most have left or are going it seems.

Besides the Brits I do not think they really were into it.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Keep asking them the basis for their beliefs, gets them every time .eom

[DRoseDARs]

5. Coalition of the Wigging-out

Call it what it is. :shrug:

[Selatius]

6. What is a determined enemy?

There are foreign fighters and others in Iraq who resort to suicide bombings and other junk that get innocent people killed or intentionally target other Iraqis, but that's not all the people who are fighting our soldiers.

I fear the ranks are growing among people who fight because we killed someone they loved. I fear it's the same situation for people who seek a country free from foreign domination, people who merely want to defend home and family. Are these people thugs and terrorists too? Are they also the "determined enemy"?

To a soldier on the ground, it is life or death. It's either him or the other man out there with a gun. He doesn't have to worry about if the other guy is a Ba'athist thug, a foreign fighter, a nationalist partisan wanting freedom, or someone seeking revenge because he lost his family. All he is worried about is killing the other guy before he kills him. They will all die when it comes to life and death.

To us and to those who prosecute the war, however, this is a question that must be addressed, and the answer to that question will play a large role in whether we leave our soldiers there to continue killing or whether we're going to find a better way to do this.