[RKV]

Total war means war with Iran and Syria.

[uncbob]

MacArthur had it right “In war there is NO substitute for victory”

Look at Korea today

[Greg F]

She’s right. We should whomp ‘em and then impose a McArthur type government for four or five years. We went about the occupation backwards.

[ought-six]

She is exactly right. We do not have the will or the brass danglers we had in the 1940s, even though we now — as we did then — face a determined enemy bent on our total destruction. The reason is obvious: Since WWII our country has slowly but surely fallen under the emasculating and treasonous influence of the left.

[El Gato]

Well, for starters, South Vietnamese didn't kill American troops, didn't booby-trap buildings and towns, didn't turn temples into armed camps, didn't teach their young to throw rocks at GIs.

Other than the temples part, the VC (Viet Cong, i.e. the insurgents) did all those things, and more. They did desecrate a few temples, churches, etc. AFAIK, the Iraqi Army hasn't done any of those things. You can't compare the VC to the Iraqi Army, they were more like Al Qaeda in Iraq, or maybe the Mahdi Army or a combination there of. You compare the Iraqi Army to the ARVN, and you'll see they are doing better faster than the ARVN did, but even the ARVN beat off the North Vietnames regulars, with help from US air power, and would have done it again if the DemonRats hadn't cut them off. Unlike the Iraqis, the South Vietnamese had no oil or other major resources, just rubber trees and rice.

[El Gato]

The only real comparison is that the DemonRats want to lose, just like they did the early '70s.

If they get their wish, again, the bloodbath will probably make the killing fields of Cambodia look tame, and the "re-education camps" will be seen as mild in comparison.

[justa-hairyape]

There really has been no correct solution to the problems within the Middle East. If there really was one, chances are we would have at least stumbled upon it sometime in the past 3,000 years. In the present time-line the Middle East is unfortunately going nuclear. Which of course means that our only real solution here in the States is too lock up the borders, find and deport the terrorists and shoot anything down entering our airspace that we have not identified.