"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:
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Don, I see that you still can't think for yourself.


Maybe I'd be a good candidate for your army. Would you vouch for me?


No, the US model is to encourage and develop leadership at all levels
of the military. It is one of the principles that makes the US
military second to none in the world.


Really? The U.S. military has not "won" a shooting war against a
signifant enemy since WW II.


Thanks to the pussification of our military. I suspect that the "rules
of engagement" were quite a bit different when Patton was sweeping
through Germany than when our troops were operating in Vietnam (even
*if* a certain US Senator/Former patrol boat captain *did* shoot wounded
unarmed Vietnamese).




Our loss in Vietnam had to do with the fact that we were facing a highly
motivated, dogged, group of people willing to fight to the death in
massive numbers to get us the hell out of their country. We lost, they
won. Period.


If we had given the military the objective of winning the war and had
Johnson stay out of the hour to hour war fighting decisions then the war
would have been won. Tet in '68 was a bad time for the VC and NVA and we
should have pursued the VC and NVA and killed and the war would have been
over by 1970.

Well, Bert, I disagree. Oh. I was there. You were not.

You weren't there, you can say it all you want but that won't make it true!