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Originally posted by kach22i
This is good stuff, you could write this kind of thing all day and I would read it.
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You know what the saddest part is bro?
I COULD write this stuff all day long, that's how badly the war was mishandled.
It is a god-damned national disgrace that seemingly, virtually every relevant political and military lesson we learned in Vietnam was completely forgotten between 1991, and now.
When the smoke cleared from OIF(Op Iraqi Freedom) our victory should have been as complete and convincing as ODS(Op Desert Storm) or OJC(Op Just Cause) were.
Of course the flip side of all that is that there is so much legitimate ground for criticism that it just drives me up the wall to see so many people repeat pet political mantras/talking points simply because they're either too stupid or too lazy to arm themselves with the facts.
If Colin Powell had run this war(or had it been run according to the doctrine which bears his name), OIF would be one of the greatest military victories in the history of mankind*.
But he didn't, and it's not... and now look at the mess we as a nation and a people have to clean up.
*(in some ways, from a strictly martial standpoint, it still has been a historic operation, with a lot of military firsts- some of which are quite impressive, but still nowhere even remotely close to the level that could've been achieved).
We have 'thus far' snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.