*** The “winning hearts and minds” nonsense nearly lost us the second stage of the Iraq war. War is to be despised and hated, it is horrible, it is hell. You put your soldiers on the battlefield and crush the enemy, you kill them and destroy them and any possibility for them to make war in the near future. You give them war till they hate war and have lost all taste for it. ***
(chuckle) That's what I was going to post, until I closed the wrong window.
And the 'Winning Their Hearts and Minds' junk cost us BIG in Vietnam.
And the 'Winning Their Hearts and Minds' junk cost us BIG in Vietnam. Absolutely, there are some very astute Freepers on this thread, and that is refreshing, given what I have seen of late.