I had to laugh at the convoy of Russian "diplomats" getting caught in the crossfire a couple of days ago. Why would diplomats be there at this point? Military advisors perhaps? yup
Nice Soviet style defense Iraq used.
Really smart to use a defense we've been war-gaming against for 40 years. The combination of stealth and precision guided weapons, and most importantly, people that know how to use them, is a deadly combination. Idiots with guns will simply not win a war in the 21st century. Superior people with superior weapons will.
As long as 99% of the Arab media is funded and controlled by rulers with more in common with Hussein than with democracy, don't expect democracy or the United States to be popular in that region. Idiotic propoganda, no matter how outrageous, works well on uneducated masses (and Hollywood liberals) if repeated enough. I tend to think the information revolution will someday bring down the more repressive regimes of the world. The media, and the truth, is getting harder to control. Someday, and that day is near, information will be impossible to control. The pen (and the internet) is indeed mightier than the sword. usa