Posted on 06/26/2014 6:38:21 AM PDT by rktman
The first time I heard the term “military advisors” it was being used by John F. Kennedy and they were being sent to South Vietnam. A strong anti-communist, in 1961 Kennedy approved financing an increase in the size of the South Vietnamese army from 150,000 to 170,000 along with sending a thousand U.S. military advisors to help train them. We all know how the Vietnam War ended.
Earlier, the North Korean attack on the South had ended in a stalemate. Technically a state of war still exists. Since 1953, the U.S. has maintained a military force in South Korea. In the wake of World War II, we still have a military presence in Europe and Japan to aid in their defense.
Obama’s announcement that 300 military advisors are being sent to Iraq is too little, too late.
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IMNVHO, Limbaugh may have got something right. Obama has never been more dangerous than he will be over the last two years of a failed Presidency, especially with the prospect of a Republican Congress.
Government by Executive Order is your complaint? Pal, you ain't seen nothing yet! Not a good time to have a hopeless drunkard as Speaker.
Obama is destroying our standing in the world, economically and politically. That is want he intended to do. Given his agenda, he has been spectacularly successful.
And the minority gets it while the majority has been lulled(or bought) into goin’ along to get along. Like I said. Complacency sucks.
Well, ya gotta admit that he did tell us what he was gonna do. To bad the average comprehension skills across the country suck so bad.
To hell with Gitmo. We need to shut down Washington.
There is this lie that the ubiquitous “military advisers” signaled JFK’s start of the Vietnam war, but we had advisers there long before JFK, just as we had them, and have them, all over the globe.
It was sending in 16,000 troops that was boots on the ground, and the start of troop commitment.
It wasn’t the first American killed there in 1945 who’s team was sent by FDR, or the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) sent in 1950 by Truman, or the hundreds of advisers sent and maintained by Eisenhower.
We can’t let the left and right media create a false public image that makes it impossible for us to send in our Green Berets to work behind the scenes doing what they specialize in, by confusing their adviser work with sending in combat troops and “boots on the ground”.
I think Obama has no idea what “military advisors” are
I’ve read about VN “advisors” as early as ‘59 but wasn’t aware of earlier ones. Thanks. I’ll look in to it.
Any wonder how they fought us so well?
Kinda like the Afghani mudjadeen vs. Soviets that we trained and now fight against? How dumb are we? ;>}
“Earlier, the North Korean attack on the South had ended in a stalemate. Technically a state of war still exists. Since 1953...”
South Korea never signed.
You make an important and valid point. Korea, Greece, Formosa, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc. Using military advisers as an element of National Security policy has been going on since the turn of the 20th Century. Outcomes fall across the entire spectrum, so to simply say that because we sent advisers to Vietnam, everything else necessarily and inevitability follows is just not true.
Giving weapons to muslims is akin to giving hand grenades to monkeys...
Fight to win or stay out. Anything else is cruel. The Iraqi people have been dying for decades. I don’t know what the casualty figures are (including civilians), but they probably would have suffered less with one nuclear weapon. We would have suffered less. People are tolerant. They can take a lot of misery and keep going. You have to hit them hard enough that they don’t want to fight any more. Anything else is cruel.
~Obama on the show Family Matters...
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