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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (135886)	6/7/2004 1:09:31 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 281500

Yet we've grown up as a nation in the 35-40 years hence. I'm not certain that the Tiger tales are entirely true, for truth usually lies somewhere between here and there. But let's assume that they are, just to save that debate. We don't operate that way now — the wholesale killing of everything that moves in Tiger-like fashion, scope and scale. Unless you're in a wedding party. But even then we've evolved; we now use high tech attacks and which don't splatter as much blood directly on our troops. In actuality it's not such a simple thing as "learning" from past mistakes. The thing that's predictable about such learning is that it's more accurately a relearning process. A generation or a decade or two and we get to relearn the old lessons again because it's always "different this time." If we stay in Iraq as long as we stayed in Vietnam and if the resistance is as strong, we'll have plenty of Tiger Team tales, just as there were plenty of unreported Tiger Team-like tales in Vietnam.