@jamesrichardson @shibao this argument I actually disagree with, there's a long history of lightly-armed guerrillas being able to effectively fight heavily armed traditional army. tanks and helicopters aren't really effective in that situation unless you're talking about just carpet bombing like we did after pulling troops out of Vietnam, but I think the US gov would have bigger problems on its hands if it started taking such drastic actions like that and completely delegitimizing its claim to being a valid state.