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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The French and, in a radically smaller number of countries, the Italians, have continued to play a military role in many of their former colonies.
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I know. I'm saying that's not enough to be useful. 20-30+ years ago, with Algeria and Veitnam still relatively fresh, maybe the French would have been helpful in this situation, but not anymore. I'm not sure the Italians have been militarily useful to anyone since the fall of Rome, though they have had great uniforms.
I share your discomfort vis a vis the Ruskies' likely tactics, Bilmore. But, while I still think occupying Iraq was the right thing to do, I try not to have any illusions about what we are doing there, or the degree to which the execution has sucked, or what is necessary to do it right. Russia's involvement would give us (i) effective help, (ii) (mutual) significant international support in our (respective) combat situations and (iii) some plausible deniability.
