Jarolleon
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Also the Afghans are also a hardcore warrior culture who chopped their invaders up to make stew, while Iraq is a made-up country composed of Ottoman subjects who happened to live within the lines drawn on the map by Sykes & Picot, and hasn't been a power in its own right since the days of Sumer & Babylon.Yeah well to be fair, Saddam thought that his Republican Guard, while actually pretty good and gave the US Military a serious challenge, would be enough to repel the US Military from Iraq in a conventional matter. It wasn't because Iraq is a flat desert. Meaning it is super fucking hard to defend that shit and really easy to invade. If Saddam was in Afghanistan or another mountainous country then maybe he'd have a good point since the Republican Guard could easily become Guerrillas. Like how the Taliban today is running the US Military out of Afghanistan.
This is the same reason why Hamas rules Gaza despite Israel's attempts at overthrowing them with invasions. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas of the world and Hamas is pretty good at Urban Insurgency. This is the same reason why Hezbollah also gave the IDF very bloody nose in Southern Lebanon multiple times during military invasions by the IDF there.
"
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."
-Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier