Cog wrote:When someone mentions the use of the military on US soil, it clues me in that they fantasize about the military killing conservatives and Republicans. It also tells me they think we defeated the Taliban in our 18 years over there.
I know the common thought by leftists is all the gun owners are going to line up in a big row to be strafed by planes and mowed down like wheat. Insurgencies don't work that way.
Indolence, gluttony & decadence doesn't go hand in hand with successful insurgence.
I am very much on the right (the only major leftie argument which I have accepted is about AGW) and yet somehow I do not see any prospects for successful insurgence anywhere on the West (or in Poland for that mater).
To get to a standard of even mediocre Taliban fighter average American would need to spend his entire life and one day longer in the gym. Then he would need another life in diamond mine for character building.
If there will be any insurgence against american government, it will be manned by mexican drug cartels. They are probably capable to organize and sustain successful campaign of assassinations of american key public figures and their families (and also their shadow overlords) what might force elites to negotiate.