[river rat]

As with finding diamonds....you have to sift through and crush a lot of rock..

Fred may get some things wrong, from my perspective -- but there are gems in amongst the rocks..

Semper Fi

[reluctantwarrior]

I am one of those warriors and Fred is not wrong on us not getting it as per the type of conflict or how we apply power, we apply force with a hammer because we do not understand the political, economic, or informational elements of national power. We are after all warriors, we are trying like hell to adapt to the everywhere is a battlefield but old ways go down slowly.

He is entitled to a rant about his buddies, we did not fight Vietnam to win, we applied military force to a political problem and we got a poor outcome with alot of bodybags and broken men.