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Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 16 2004, 03:30 PM
PD - you are wrong, democrats have not successfully prosecuted a war since Rooservelt. Liberals do not like the military and do not understand how to use it effectively to further National interests.
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Mike, how the hell do you go from posting things which at least demonstrate an ability to think (even if I think your reasoning is wrong) to posting mindless bullshit?
We've had three wars since Roosevelt. There have been other battles (Grenada, Panama), but hardly wars.
We did as well as could be expected in Korea once the Chinese got in. The minute we used the troops and undertook the tactics necessary to defeat the Chinese, we would have found ourselves pulling a Dunkirk on the west coast of France - probably trying to do so in the middle of a nuclear exchange. (Yup - I think Truman should have shot MacArthur).
We did no better than the French in Vietnam - all the more of a pity since we paid for them to lose, and quite predictable since the folks we allied ourselves with were their former colonial lackies - and the tactics that many say would have "won" the war probably would have brought the Chinese in again (the EXACT same leadership was in Peking between 65-70, and I don't think the would have viewed Americans that close to their border as any more to their liking).
Iraq I was not prosecuted by a liberal, and the end result was as fucked up as Korea.