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To: LSUfan

This is the same thing that screwed us in Vietnam - Johnson and McNamara were picking targets from the basement of the Whitehouse.


8 posted on 11/01/2014 7:55:19 AM PDT by Herzo61
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To: Herzo61
You're exactly right. The bammy-bots ought to be smart enough to know what they don't know. Set the objectives in clear terms (and stick to them) then leave it up to the professionals who have quite literally made a career out of "implementation" of military objectives.

Of course the fundamental problem is the liberal elitist/fascist mindset - they actually believe they know best for everyone on everything. Scary form of self-aggrandizing mental illness.

14 posted on 11/01/2014 8:28:17 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Herzo61
"This is the same thing that screwed us in Vietnam - Johnson and McNamara were picking targets from the basement of the Whitehouse."

Amen, brother!

18 posted on 11/01/2014 8:47:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
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To: Herzo61
This is the same thing that screwed us in Vietnam - Johnson and McNamara were picking targets from the basement of the Whitehouse.


Not a fair nor accurate analogy.

First off, Johnson had a legitimate pretext for approving bombing raids.

First, we were in the middle of a nuclear Cold War with the USSR and LBJ wanted to avoid starting WWIII with any strategic bombing activities IN NORTH VIETNAM

Second, LBJ approved a heck of lot of pretty massive and effective bombing operations.

We had hundreds of USAF aircraft in action over Vietnam at any given time . For example, there was a 240 helicopters sweep over Tay Ninh province, beginning Operation Junction City in 1967.

Third, in South Vietnam, the US military had an almost total freedom in tactical air support for American troops and routinely hammered the Viet Cong and NVA regulars with massive jet air strikes , helicopter gunship attacks and massive artillery fire.

Vietnam was a full scale war with 500K American troops.

In contrast, Obama sends one flight of 2 FA-18s to drop 4 or 5 500 lb bombs on an empty tent. The tent is empty because some al Qaeda sympathizer in the Obama admin leaked the attack so no one would be hurt.

One day of LBJ Vietnam level micromanaged warfighting would destroy ISIS for good in less than a week

38 posted on 11/01/2014 11:07:16 PM PDT by rdcbn
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