On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:38:53 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:18:03 -0400, "Harry.Krause"

wrote:

The North Vietnamese handed us our butts over there, and this remains
true despite the b.s. bravado of latter day revisionists.

We handed ourselves our butts. You had to be there to understand that,
Harry.

How many more thousands of American lives do you think we should have thrown
away to protect something that cannot be protected? I'm mean YOU PERSONALLY.
If you were the president, how would YOU decide when enough was enough?

Let's use an assumption here, to eliminate the usual excuse. Let's say that
no matter how much force we threw at Vietnam, short of nuclear weapons
(because you are not stupid), the result was the same, for 2, 5, 7, 10
years. When would YOU, as president, end it?

Don't dodge the question, or pull a Dave Hall stunt and say "it's a
strawman". Questions like this are exactly how people learn strategy.


"...no matter how much force...result was the same..."

You may assume that, but I don't. The politicians should have let the military
do their job.

Now, go back to bed.

--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)