The point I was making is that instead of trying to understand those to whom they are opposed, instead of learning the culture, the customs, the language, Americans simply sneer at them. Then apply force.

The US would have been far, far more effective in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan if they would have been aware of their issues and language.

However, re the Occupiers. Your attitude is typical, no effort to understand those folks, simply deriding them because you disagree. And that's sad, because they have a message with which you don't have to agree but still a message.

Y'know, during the American Revolution, 1/3 of the people were in favor of independence, 1/3 didn't care one way or the other, and 1/3 were in favor of staying a colony. It's not difficult to tell where you would have been and how you would have regarded those ragtag revolutionaries, scruffy uniforms, lousy marchers, shooting from behind trees, spoiled, ungrateful wretches who crap wherever it suits them.

Arf