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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (157388)1/4/2003 11:03:59 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1581938
 
The terrain was certainly an issue but the main thing is our enemy was more commited to win then we where.

There were incidents on the Ho Chi Minh trail where artillery drawn by VC would get stuck in the mud, and one or more VC would literally lie down in the ruts, allowing themselves to be used as human boards, crushed to death, to allow a piece of artillery to be pulled out of the mud. That's commitment.

But the lack of commitment on our part was NOT with our soldiers. In fact, early on, our soldiers were extremely committed to the effort.

It was only after LBJ failed to make the true committment to the war that was necessary to win it that our troops became disillusioned, and which bred the disillusionment at home.

Ted is quite confused on this matter. I'm guess he is too young to remember it. Estes has written on the subject that we had the resources, but we just weren't allowed to use them. This is totally consistent with the often-expressed views of Colin Powell, Hackworth, and even Schwartzkopf.
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