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To: sukhoi-30mki
Every effort is made to avoid having to drop a bomb -- including asking the ground commander if he can break contact with the enemy and go home. But sometimes there's no alternative.

You don't win by making the enemy run away temporarily. You REALLY don't win by running away from the enemy yourself. You win by killing the enemy, and convincing the people that supporting the enemy is a quick way to die.

Screw this "hearts and minds" BS. That's how we lost Vietnam.

27 posted on 11/22/2010 8:33:44 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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30 posted on 11/22/2010 9:26:26 AM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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