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Lol!
Yeah... no. "Hearts and minds" shitfuckery is propaganda for your own side, Clyde. That is all it has ever been.
The keys to winning at colonialist warfare - oops, I mean t to say "counter-insurgency" - is still the same as it has ever been... destroy the means of existence of the population the resistance exists within. Ie, what the Brits did in South Africa and Malaya (and others), what the US did in the continental US and what the US tried (and failed) to do in Vietnam.
Stop being naive.
Oh, the weirdo who keeps calling me Clyde is back.
You have fun ignoring the actual strategies used in counter-insurgency warfare in exchange for your weird, pseudo-religious view of world politics and The Great Satan.
You desperately wanting to cling onto GI Joe fairy tales does not make "hearts and minds" any less of a propaganda strategy purely intended to fool people like you, Clyde. I guess the people who came up with it knew their audience well enough, eh?
But hey... maybe I'm wrong. And in that case it should be very easy for you to find evidence of a colonialist war where this "hearts and minds" malarkey even influenced the final outcome of colonialist warfare.
Shouldn't be too difficult for you, should it?
Sorry Bob, I just don't care enough to argue with reactionary scumbags like you. Have fun playing with yourself, though!
I'm not the one swallowing colonialist propaganda, Clyde - you are.
So that's a no on the whole "provide-a-shred-of-evidence-for-your-claim" thing?
No surprises there.
I'm still not the one swallowing colonialist propaganda, Clyde - you are.
So that's satill a no on the whole "provide-a-shred-of-evidence-for-your-claim" thing?
Still no surprises there.