Posted on 08/24/2005 2:49:33 PM PDT by WillMalven
Leni
I've been accused of being an armchair general, but I agree with your post 100%. The only thing they understand is the sword. Notice how the "fearless leaders" incite their youths to strap on bomb belts, yet we find them cowering in rat holes when they should be leading their damn jihads?
America has got to stop listening to the whining drone from world opinion and MSM. We need to kick the UN out of this country, and prosecute the vile little insects like Kofi Annan for violating a million different rules.
Finally, we need to just come out and call this a religious war, because that's what it is. Our enemy says it is, so why is everyone pussyfooting around the subject? The only way to win this war is to permanently subdue and destroy the enemy. In my ignorant opinion, of course.
will require that Iran and Syria be put in their place.
I think you're right.
Paris Accords were signed, game over.
The game was over long before the Paris Accords. As I said, Johnson would not allow the US to win. Handcuffed the military. Remember the NVA was shooting at the last planes leaving Saigon.
True...but in what possible way is he to do that? If he were to attack Iran or Syria, we would not have the manpower to do it. And unfortuately, the Dems, by not backing the troops or the mission since Day One, have fomented such division that any move to truly win the war in that way would be successfully portrayed as Bush the Warmonger and America the COnqueror...(Most people don't see him or us in that way now..but they would then)
It's not a matter of being PC.... but the nation will not back an escalation, and without the support of the people, it really DOES become a Vietnam.
Yep, people just keep on "mis-underestimating" him! :-)
LLS
I hope and pray you are right!!!
Actually, I disagree with you. A severe bombing attack on Syria with massive destruction of all productive facilities would destroy any economy they have. Not a hair would be harmed in Iran. The folks in Iran will get the message, believe me. This kind of act would also encourage the forces in Iran that want to overthrow the current regime, and opt for a more Democratic form of government. It is Syria that should take massive pain, delivered from the air. As Sherman said, war is hell, so completely and utterly destroy the enemy, and get it over with as fast as you can.
They sure the heck weren't after the Easter Offensive. Remember not much happend in 1974.
Militarily true...but though I do agree that is the best way, with Republicans like Chuck Hagel and John McCain, the Dems, and the media, President Bush will have an impossible task at convincing the American people. The Dems have been successful at portraying Bush as misleading in the run-up to Iraq. With a united public behind him, it would work. Without public support, it would not. Perhaps when there has been more progress in Iraq's elections, etc, the case can be made more persuasively.
Actually I should say 1973, by 1974 they'd starting probing to see if we would provide airsupport.
But you're right, had LBJ pulled his head out the war would never have gotten to Tet.
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