What would you do if we were invaded?

[anarchy1999]

This question was posed on another thread.

courtesy "democrank"
I ask this of every single pro-war person I come into contact with.... If a foreign government invaded America, killed and maimed our citizens, bombed our cities, took down our statues, changed our currency, took over our oilfields, set curfews and roadblocks, raided our homes, set up a torture center, made decisions about who would get work and who wouldn`t, witheld electricity and water, and set up a puppet government, would we be "terrorists" if we fought back?



What would you DO?

[lonestarnot]

1. Fight the invaders!

[anarchy1999]

6. Does that make you a "dead ender or maybe an insurgent/terrorist, or just

a freedom fighter".

I'm so confused. Damn. I do know though what I'd be and how I'd feel if I lived in Iraq. I'd be pissed off.

[lonestarnot]

14. I guess that would make me an

insurgentfreedomfighterterrorist.

[Imagevision]

29. I would kill anyone who harmed my family [anyone!]

so when the US. wipes out entire families I believe they are also adding extra "insurgents" to help the fight against our troops.
vicious circle!

[rzemanfl]

2. Give them directions to Crawford, Texas. n/t

[dweller]

5. hell, i'd lead them there myself...

okay, i guess i'm officially a traitor now.

dp

[JRob]

3. Of course we'd fight... As, what's obviously the point of the question...

Iraq has been.

[ChiDem]

4. Hehe..

If invaded, I would slice their heads off and drag thier burnt corpses through the streets.

really. :mad:

[bushisanidiot]

7. I'd become an "insurgent" and do what i could to protect my family & home

which is what i think most people would do. it's human nature to fight back when attacked.

what is NOT human nature is to attack when unprovoked. that's just plain evil.

[porphyrian]

8. Join Patrick Swayze and the Wolverines...!

Really, though, I would probably welcome a good, honest military invasion to the one we've been suffering for the last decade or more.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Having heard the experiences of people who lived through WWII

in Europe and Japan, trust me, you do NOT want a "good, honest military invasion."

Huddling in the rubble, winter and summer, with no electricity, no running water, and no functioning plumbing, and living on two chunks of bread or one bowl of rice per day is NOT fun.

[porphyrian]

30. My point was that I'd rather...

...have someone take my country at gunpoint than to destroy it from within under the guise of patriotism and Christian values. At least, then, I could shoot back. I think you missed my point.

[DistressedAmerican]

9. I Think I'd Make A Better Hit And Run Guy Than Suicide Bomber...

[Kingshakabobo]

37. Don't believe in the whole 72 virgin thingy huh?

[ThomWV]

10. And Who, Pray Tell, Might Do It?

One might give plausable argument to the proposition that we are in the process of being invaded by Mexico right now - sans the bombs and maiming of our citizens - but other than that just what country do you think might invade our shores? Oh, and what country do you think could send a single LST up to a sunny beach without its home country being nuked into a very nasty black glass?

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Suspension Of Dis Belief? Hypothetical? Heard Of The Terms?

[Teena]

18. Invaded

Good point, ThomWV. Given that we are the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world, one might ask why we have not pushed back at Mexico or helped them to become a nation that does not make its inhabitants want to leave to find a better life north.

[anarchy1999]

31. China. Plain and simple.

n/t
(I've read too much Skolnick)

[Lars39]

33. China and Russia were doing war maneuvers a while back.

[pitohui]

11. most people wouldn't do diddly

resistance is always a minority until war is over and a winner clearly chosen, even the revolutionary war was like this, most people didn't support the founding fathers

[Lynxian]

13. Try to understand why they hate us

If a country invaded America, I would ask "Why do you hate us?" Find the reasons for the invasion, work on a diplomatic way to have them put down their arms, maybe make some concessions to their way of thinking.

[pitohui]

15. they don't hate us they are invading us for our jobs

as the guy upstream pointed out, we are being invaded by mexico right now, most folks are fine w. it

it's about the $$$

[newyawker99]

35. Hi Lynxian!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Inland]

I'd collaborate, betray you all, become interim PM, steal $8B, retire.

And if I don't get shot in the brain, I'll be escaping to France with the help of the state department five years later.

Well, at least I've got ambition.

[Raiden]

16. I'd definantly fight

However, the only nations I'd say that are geographically able to 'invade' us are Canada and Mexico, and there ain't much tension there--so no worries

[jobycom]

17. I would throw flowers at the feet of my attackers and praise them

by holding up "thank you!" signs in their language (even though I don't speak it), and become very angry at the bad old meanies who tried to fight our glorious conquerors.

No, wait. That's what I'd do if I were a Republican.

[Divernan]

19. Rely on my state's National Guard for protection? Whoops!

They're all in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Walter Reed Hospital!

[Divernan]

20. Rely on my state's National Guard for protection? Whoops!

They're all in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Walter Reed Hospital!

[leftofthedial]

21. with the bushturd in power after its coup

and given the lack of worse choices in the world

I'd probably cheer

But I know that's not what you were looking for.

[stray cat]

22. Murder innocent civilians and children to get the press engaged

[Comandante_Subzero]

25. Pot Calling Kettle

Killing civilians is, sadly, a standard practice in modern war. Some do it more than others. The main killer of civilians in Iraq has been Washington, both via the sanctions & via the war. The Bush junta created terrorism in Iraq & they are Osama's best recruiter.

[NJCher]

23. I'd be riverbend

I would get the word out to other countries however I was able to.


Cher

[Dave Reynolds]

26. My sig line,

although not eloquent, sums up my position on that.

[MrSlayer]

27. I'd be dropping bodies left and right.

A good accurate sniper can take out a lot of people. It would be really tough to take out Philly conventionally, the people here take zero shit from anyone.

[Zorra]

28. Somehow, as much as I hate Bu*h and the neocons and want to see them

all go to prison for life for their war crimes and crimes against democracy, I wouldn't be throwing flowers at the invaders.

Grenades, yeah.

[wli]

32. I'd probably die due to disruption of infrastructure & lack of medicine

I highly doubt I'd be able to accomplish anything in the interim.

A "hello there" from the meds-for-life crowd.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

43. Same.

I fear that I would become "collateral damage" during the conflict.

[lunchtime]

34. It would honestly depend on how much I liked the system...

...I was living under. If I had no rights in America as it was, I might welcome a political change brought in from the outside. If the political change was even less welcome than the system I was living under, I'd fight the invaders and try to help establish something home-based.

As America is today, and because I enjoy my freedoms here, I would fight any country looking to change it with force.

[supernova]

36. I'd definitely pick up a gun

One man's "insurgent" is another man's patriot.

[Alcibiades]

38. Bush and company don't understand human nature...

... it's basic human nature to resist foreign aggression.
If there was Iraqi soldiers coming down my street in an armored vehicle or half-track or something, I'd shoot at them, no matter how well intentioned they claimed to be. The longer they stayed in my country, the more likely I would be to shoot at them. That's human nature.

And that's the problem, as I see it, with the folks who advocated for this war, as you did: they didn't understand human nature. They thought they could radically remake the politics of another nation in their own image. They thought that the Iraqis would all welcome us with open arms like the Italians did after their capitulation. That's Pollyanna wishful thinking. Wars are not won by Pollyanna wishful thinking.

So long as the population wants the foreigners out more than they want to stay, all occupations are doomed to fail. Not only do those boys in Washington misunderstand basic human nature, they don't understand history. They keep spouting off about "light at the end of the tunnel" and "Iraquification." They keep saying things like "It takes time to train an army and a police," when they was the ones what disbanded the army and the police in the first place. Besides, the insurgents have had no longer to train than the Iraqis we are training, and they seem to be doing just fine--heck, they just keep getting better, and it seems all the time I hear our own generals praising them for being so "adaptive," all the while claiming that they will win the hearts and minds of the Iraqis, ignoring that basic point about human nature I made earlier.

So, again, we have had something like 1,800 deaths, all because the Bushies don't understand basic facts about man (perhaps because they are not men, but rather some unspeakable race of subterranean troglodytes in disguise). Since they presumably wouldn't have advocated so strongly for a war they knew we couldn't win, and they're too smart to have been wrong about that, what is their plan now for us to win the hearts and mines-sorry, I mean minds-of the Iraqis? We need to press them on this.

[KayLaw]

39. I'm not sure

I've thought about this and I'm just not sure.

[Jacobin]

40. Exactly what the Iraqis are doing

[Cleita]

41. If they were coming to free us from Bush and

the PNAC Republicans, I would welcome them with flowers and if they get his and his minions scummy asses to the Hague, I would be eternally grateful.

Otherwise, I think I would join an underground movement to repel them, just like anyone else.

[Delphinus]

42. The same thing the Iraqi citizens are doing!

I've said this over and over again - but it falls on deaf ears (not here, but out in the world).

[JNelson6563]

44. Fight like hell

And borrow some firepower.

Julie

[Incitatus]

45. BOOM

[Massacure]

46. Depends on who invaded.

I'd fight a Chinese army, but not a Canadian one.

[anarchy1999]

48. With bombs falling upon your home and hurting your ability to care for

your family would you truly care if it was China or Canada?

[Massacure]

50. Canada and Europe aren't as stupid as the U.S. is.

[anarchy1999]

47. A very much well deserved kick to the top.

thank you all.

[Melynn]

49. Depended on who invaded us

I wouldn't be against a group of social democrat EU type of countries liberating the US from a thuggish corporate dictatorship. As a matter of fact, if the neocons keep it up, you may just see something like that happen.

[klyon]

51. exactly what the people of Iraq are doing

I would try to stop them at every turn until they left.

KL

[kentuck]

52. I would hide four of my guns and keep one by my side...

First thing they would do is try to disarm the "insurgents"..

[elehhhhna]

53. Yep. I'd have hubs teach me how to shoot, quick. He's an excellent

shot when it comes to clay pigeons (& has the trophies to prove it--) but God Bless him, can't hit a duck or any other bird to save his own life.

I hope the invaders yell "pull" and catapult themselves over our house. We'd be safe then.