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To: Mortimer Snavely
Yes we were doing pretty poorly in 1942 BUT WE WERE FIGHTING A NATION STATE THAT HAD AS MUCH MILITARY MIGHT AS WE DID.

We are fighting some pissant army and we haven't got the "resolve" to do it properly. 100 soldier raids which don't appear to have been near as successful as we were told and bombing the airplanes, air defenses and airstrips of some people to whom air power means next to nothing is all but useless. This war is being looked over by morons.

I think we are closer to the days following Southern Seccession than to WWII. We have incompetents running the country.

29 posted on 10/26/2001 1:18:13 PM PDT by Loopy
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To: Loopy
"Pissant Army" ... The right term indeed! Force of 45,000 troops, not well-coordinated. Use Toyota pickups for transport.

But we are not making a major dent as we should be.

Very frustrating to see the U.S. Forces not going at it hammer and tong. Especially not going in on the ground in bigger fashion to engage and kill the enemy. A heavily armed base IN-COUNTRY as a launch point could find and neutralize any army movements and engage in much more raiding, recon and potential leadership capture. Additional help from friendly forces (NA) could take major cities for us if we engaged in a much larger scale on front lines. Lots of possibilities, why are we not pursuing them? Fear of doing too much?!?!?

31 posted on 10/27/2001 8:56:50 AM PDT by WOSG
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