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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
4) Send home a big shipment of body bags filled with Americans. The United States has very little resolve and does not react well to the site of its own blood. Send home a few thousand body bags (sink a carrier or battleship should do that) and watch the American resolve crumble to nothing. This country is already against the Iraq war because of the dead they are not seeing. Let them see the death toll close up and they'll demand the troops be brought home. Nothing is more important in this country than "their children". Oh, and if the Iranians manage to get this done they achieve option one as well.
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With this constant trickle of one or two bodies coming back that we see now, I agree that the resolve of the US is weakening. That said, if a carrier or battleship was blown up, I think a strong revenge feeling would be generated. Just look at 9/11 (although on a much larger scale).
To summarize, it seems to be a:
If "our children" are slowly killed due to "us" being there, it is our fault and let's get out of there so it won't happen.
If "our children" are massively killed at one shot, screw you! You die!