I hate to bust your bubble but in my dog-eared copy of Robert Pisor’s 1982 classic “The End of the Line: The Siege of Khe Sanh” in the part about the infamous NVA assault on the Lang Vei Special Forces camp there is the passage on page 171:
“Colonel Schungel knelt in the middle of the camp, with green tracers from enemy machine guns criss-crossing the ground in front of him, and wildly-swinging parachute flares overhead [a lighting effect spookily captured in the movie “Platoon”, to give credit where credit is due], and fired a LAW at the lead tank. The shell hit in a great shower of orange sparks, but the tank kept rolling. He moved closer with another LAW, but this time the disposable launcher refused to fire. Now he was close enough to roll hand grenades into the tank’s treads, and to fire his rifle into the eyeslits. The tank kept rolling. Another team hit one North Vietnamese tank nine times with the shoulder-fired LAW rockets, and the tank kept rolling.”
The LAW couldn’t do the job during its supposed heyday on a tank so lightly armored it could float.
I don’t actually know if that’s what we supplied the Georgians with, and I have not actually seen the photographs of dead Georgian soldiers wearing and holding outdated U.S. gear that the article referred to but, if true, this smacks of utter pusillanimity on the part of GWB.
Again, Pooty is an enemy refreshingly familiar to us westerners. his nuclear chest-thumping is obvious twaddle. He’s an old-fashioned crook, he does not want to get blowed up real good. He wants wealth, power, prestige, and time to plow his recently acquired 24 year-old gymnast 2nd wife.