[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Don't want to defend Hackworth character, too many flaws. He was not wrong in 91 "it's a six minute war", Jury is still out on Afghanistan, and who cares what the marxist, cult-of-personality political whores in DPRK and/or elsewhere think? Planning people on all sides of that equation know better than to read something into that. Vietnam was a stated pullout with no intention of returning, there is no analogy here. This is a simple case of not letting world opinion prevent the US from doing what is best for the US

[jwalsh07]

Col. Hackworth's predictions of casualties in the Gulf were off by several orders of magnitude.