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To: elfman2
but halting the attack on Fallujah like this is indicative of the crippling restrictions behind tragedies in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.

Well, no. Not really. This was a decision to engage politics, not one to describe in detail how the Marines were to fight.

47 posted on 05/03/2004 5:24:48 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
"This was a decision to engage politics, not one to describe in detail how the Marines were to fight"

Perhaps. And I think that’s what lost us Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.

56 posted on 05/03/2004 5:28:58 PM PDT by elfman2
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