[Racehorse]

In his current column he writes that if we stay the course in Iraq "we're likely doomed to an even bloodier and more costly defeat in a country divided along ethnic and religious fault lines and headed toward civil war. ...

"The problem is that there is no way we can win -- defeat the insurgents and install a stable, democratic, friendly government -- and bad things are going to happen anyway. There is no way Americans are willing to pay the price even of stalemate, never mind an unattainable victory. ...

Where is Sergeant Major "Any-of-you-a**holes-call-me-grandpa . . . I'll-kill-you" Basil L. Pumley when we need him to whisper a few encouraging words into the ear of his old Ia Drang Valley bud?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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As we all use to call him in Vietnam,

...here's "S/MAJ"

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