Now I'm posting out of order. 

Isn't it funny how, "Yahoo's on the backs of Donkeys" generally seem to have some sort of advantage in a military setting?  I think it has something to do with DRIVE.

(forgive the following Readers Digest approach to military history)

One example of historical yahoos without much military might would be the colonists...the voluntary continental army which broke from the traditional parallel line formations and hid in trees and behind rocks and so forth and pushed back the British Army (with the help of foreign terrorist supporters like France and Spain) from the North American Continent.  Zip forward to the Vietnam War where the corporate funded French and American Forces were held from a toehold in S.E. Asia by poorly funded and trained Guerilla Warriors/Moms, Dads, mechanics, shopkeepers, etc. 

Soooo...perhaps it's not the money, the megatons or might.  Perhaps it's who WANTS to win that is most important.

As Americans, maybe we should use our imagination a bit since we've not been invaded yet.  We're having our morning coffee...reading the mornings posts on DB Inforsource and suddenly!  we're invaded by those Our Lady Peace listening, Molsen Swilling, ruffians to our north, the Canadians.  Not wanting our culture to change so drastically to where we become a bit more polite and pay more for our cigarettes, we fight back. We're not a REAL military, but because we love our way of life and we value homeostasis, we begin a grassroots campaign of violence to end Canadian Occupation.  We don't fight until our batallion chief sends us home. We ARE home. We don't get the luxury of a 6 month tour of duty.  We fight until we win or die trying.  And if it means I need to go make bombs out of leftover Weed Be Gone and Pool Chlorine and strap my Saturn with handmade RPG's then damnit...for my family and my way of life, I'm gonna do it! So it's a Yahoo on a Donkey or a Social worker with Anarchist Cookbook Missiles and a Saturn.  It just depends on what neighborhood you're in.  Don't invade Lawrence Kansas or this Yahoo is comin' after you! *only if we're invaded actually, if you just come to visit, stop by, we'll have a beer.*

George W. Bush is currently sending soldiers to a country that may or may not have needed our help and fighting a war with Handouts and Hummers. The food pantrys make the Iraqi citizens feel like they need charity and the Armoured Vehicles make them feel like prisoners.  What Iraq needs in this MIDWESTERNER'S opinion is autonomy.  They're not evangelical about their beliefs, they just want to be left alone. Because we were boardered by two oceans and immense frontier, we were allowed to grown on our own, make our own mistakes and develop our own autonomy.  Why can't we let Iraq do the same with minimal monitoring? 

Did someone say OIL?

Rogue state, feh! We've got rogue states all over.  Just this one is floating on Midgrade at 1.55 a gallon!  So if someone finds out our big ol' American Subdivision is hovering over a huge oasis of fossil fuel, I'll bet we'll be invaded and exploited as well.  And then we'll be asking ourselves, "Where's my Mule and my slo-blo fuses?"

I'm glad I got that off my chest 

PRH