On 11/18/2015 6:44 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/18/15 5:11 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/18/2015 4:53 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/18/15 3:18 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/18/15 2:34 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/18/15 12:59 PM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:04:26 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Man, France is kicking ass and taking names.
Media is reporting over 400 raids, over 70 arrests,
seizure of guns, ammo, even rocket launchers.

Russians aren't watching from the sidelines either.

They both have some balls. Our president is too busy playing Harry
Krause, i.e.,
saying Muslims aren't to blame for anything.
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Ban idiots, not guns!


Oh, well, name-calling, that'll solve it.
I don't know why you are offering up opinions on warfare. You lost
the
one you were in.


You should get a university education in history and logic. The
military
won most battles. After Tet the VC were pretty much finished.
But the
politicians whose mismanagement of the war over the years, and the
pressure
of the citizenry over that mismanagement basically pulled us out and
declared an end. Was not th military who lost.


yada yada yada


Yup, you can not answer, so another brain fart. Did you have to go
to a
3rd rate University cause of lack of brains?




What was it, a whole decade in Vietnam fighting a fourth-rate military
force? Don't blame the pols...


Who was the "forth-rate" military force? The USA?


You'd think that we were the first rate military force, what with the
number of personnel, the amount of armament, et cetera, and the nearly
10 years of large-scale warmaking we devoted to the effort.



My question to you asking "who was the fourth-rate military force" was
intended to point out the lack of logic in your comment, "Don't blame
the pols ..."

You seem to be arguing that the world's strongest military couldn't
defeat a fourth-rate military over a period of 10 years. Of course it
could have, if it were not for the micromanagement and restrictions
placed upon it by the "pols" during the period. This is probably the
greatest complaint of Vietnam Vets. The US military easily won
virtually every battle it fought but was not allowed to *win* the war.
Vietnam was fought much like how the Korean War
was fought ... not to "win" ... but to maintain the status quo without
it escalating into a war between the backing principles. The
politicians controlled the effort, not the military.

The military is organized, designed and equipped to win. If it can't,
it's not due to lack of capability as you imply. To think otherwise is
twisted logic for purposes other than for the truth.