[victoryatallcosts]

This is pure nonsense.

Understand- under LBJ the White House regularly micro-managed the details of military operations, ruled various targets off-limits for no good reason, and dictated a strategy which maximized the number of forces in-country while minimizing their potential uses.

Calm down, everyone. Get it: calm down. That's the big problem with the internet, it leads people to prematurely catastrophic thinking.

[Prime Choice]

Understand- under LBJ the White House regularly micro-managed the details of military operations, ruled various targets off-limits for no good reason, and dictated a strategy which maximized the number of forces in-country while minimizing their potential uses.

And this is different from the current Iraq situation (with specific regard to backing off the insurgents in Fallujah) how exactly?