I thnk that pretty much sums up why their meeting lasted only 25 minutes.
Seems like Bush met with his military advisors, Patreus and others routinely.
I fear Viet Nam again. A gradual involvement with no winnin strategy and full of restraints on our troops.
The Russians couldn’t pull it off, so is McChrystals’ strategy different?
Why also are we singling out the Taliban? I thought it was Al Quaeda that is the enemy.
A Taliban controlled Afghanistan would once again be a haven for Al Qaeda to launch global acts of terror.
Obama emboldened the enemy by telling the world he is unconfortable with the idea of winning. Because of this he has energized the enemy knowing it’s only a matter of time before we cut and run.
I fully expect an attack on our on soil during the anointed one’s administration.
Do you really believe that there is any equivalence between Soviet era underpaid, unmotivated conscripts, overseen by zampolits, and our current volunteer force?
/johnny
>>> fear Viet Nam again. A gradual involvement with no winnin strategy and full of restraints on our troops. <<<<
How North Vietnam Won The War
Bui Tin Interviewed by Stephen Young
The Wall Street Journal, 3 August 1995
http://www.viet-myths.net/buitin.htm
Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of North Vietnam’s army, received the surrender of South Vietnam in Saigon on April 30, 1975. He later became editor of the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of Vietnam.
Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi’s
victory?
A: It was essential to our strategy... Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.
Q: Did the Politburo pay attention to these visits?
A: Keenly.
Q: Why?
A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.
Q: How could the Americans have won the war?
A: Cut the Ho Chi Minh trail inside Laos. If Johnson had granted [Gen. William] Westmoreland’s requests to enter Laos and block the Ho Chi Minh trail, Hanoi could not have won the war.
Q: What else?
A: We had the impression that American commanders had their hands tied by political factors. Your generals could never deploy a maximum force for greatest military effect.