(August 28, 2013 at 3:07 pm)Chuck Wrote:(August 28, 2013 at 2:47 pm)_xenu_ Wrote: Actually, left to their own devices, they probably could. However, they do risk pissing off the enwtire Middle East and we in the US have some experience with that.
If they can't win over the Afghanis right across the border when Soviet military power was at its high water mark, it seem hard to imagine they would make much of a dent against Saudis a couple of hostile countries away now that Russian military power is but a shadow of that which has had its ass handed to it in Chechnya, which in turn is but a shadow of the the force that was stalemated by the Afghanis.
Afghanistan was a guerilla war, alot like nam or iraq. They could topple the saudi governemnt, holding what you won is the issue.
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Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
