Reply #7: This is how insurgents do it.

[Neil Lisst]

If you've never read the lyrics to GOODNIGHT SAIGON, by Billy Joel, they're worth a read.

The insurgent has time on his side. He gets the occupation troops under constant surveillance, and he figures out their patterns, their response times, their methods of responding to situations. Then he sets traps and takes out 3-10 guys at a time.

They seem to be getting better at doing this, and that is to be expected. Our boys and girls are sitting ducks. They are not set up to hold ground indefinitely. They're an army, not mall cops, not security guards. They're vulnerable because we have them escorting convoys, congressmen, and anything else that has to get through.


they heard the hum of our motors
they counted the rotors
and waited for us to arrive