toomuchtime_
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Your ignorance seems to be boundless. Iraq does have special forces and they were trained by the US. What "war" are you talking about?Of course they can be stopped whether they are armed or not. If they are not armed, limited access to the building forces them to congregate in close quarters making the vulnerable to various non lethal remedies, and if they are armed, Apache gunships, fighter planes,etc. would quickly clear them out. Security at the embassy was lax because Iraqi special forces were supposed to be guarding the perimeter of the Green Zone, but they failed to act to stop the militia.Embassies aren’t military installations.
That one is.
Never mind, get our people out, vite. Thousands of people mobbing a building -- nothing can stop that, not realistically. Nothing ever has.
Yeah, I know we could mow them down with machine guns, and history shows many examples of that (Champs de Mars, French Revolution; St. Petersburg Peasants March in 2005 Russia,, many other examples, such as the Boston Massacre). History also show that every single time, the government in place is then quickly overthrown.
So ---- bad move. Let's don't do that. I mean, I'd love it, but. Counterproductive.
Iraq has no special forces. It's why we are still there. Iraq is not interested in fighting this war.