This is why I was very careful to say Gulf War 1! But the problem with Gulf War ...

gaius on June 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sex with someone from the future is hazardous to y...

This is why I was very careful to say Gulf War 1! But the problem with Gulf War 2 was another Cold War assumption, that was nothing to do with equipment or tactics or indeed anything directly military: that the people of Iraq would welcome their liberators, in the way that the people of the former Soviet-occupied have embraced the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

mochapixel64 on June 17, 2011 [–]

Ah, whoops. My mistake. So much for a simple example to illustrate my point :)