:: The Real Stalingrad
There are elements in the media intent on characterizing the Iraqi resistance as "Stalingrad, with some calling it the "Mesopotamian Stalingrad". Do a search for yourself. You'll find that most of those references are heavily Marxist and hardly unbiased. It is perhaps no surprise as a scant month has passed since Russian ceremonies commemorating that event. See
BBC NEWS | Russia marks Battle of Stalingrad and
related links.
With the passing of the Cold War, the old red guard has had little to propel its views into the main stream. It is my belief they have filled that void by focussing their efforts into the so called globalization movement. It is a perfect vehicle, filled with comfortably disaffected youth with enough free cash to fund travel to rallies local or otherwise .
But that is a minor, even if critical digression. My point is that The Real Stalingrad makes the 7th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom look pale in its scope. The Real Stalingrad battle was conducted over many months saw the death of more than 250,000 German soldiers, with Soviet deaths estimated at half a million.
But that is not the real purpose of harkening Stalingrad. It is a vieled attempt to project Hitler's megalomania onto Bush, to project Soviet tenacity onto the Iraqi "people".
The comparison insults the intelligence of thinking people and is nothing less than a belligerent taunt to the Cent-Com and Joint Forces commanders that must field the questions from news "reporters" who must inject their own bias.
The people of Volgograd, the reformed name for Stalingrad, are anxious to put that chapter of life behind them. It would seem that the neo-Stalinists are not going to let that happen without a battle.
