No matter how good he looked in his biographer-mistress’s book, it doesn’t make up for the fact that we failed to conquer the countries we invaded, and ended up occupying undefeated nations.
I tend to agree with aspects of this argument. Starting with Vietnam, it often seems we handcuff our troops to achieve a level of political correctness. But, I don't believe for one second that the New York Times is suggesting that we do whatever is necessary to win actually win a war.
if the damn ROE’s hadnt been so damned restrictive and PC, we would have won both of these in a cake-walk, instead of trying to ‘win the hearts and minds’ of the peeps...
i dont recall any animus lately from germany or japan despite our less than PC ‘peace thru firepower’ show some 70+ years ago....
Thank you, maybe if the military was actually allowed to do that job....
It started in Korea when Truman “relieved” MacArthur who wanted to “win” that war.
British spy Maclean told the Russians that Truman wasn’t going to allow MacArthur to use atomic weapons if China crossed the Yalu, as Mac wanted. Russian, duly informed, gave the “go ahead” to China. That’s the story of Korea