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Rummy and Hackworth could not possibly be further apart on the subject of North Korea at this point in time.

Time has passe dhim by. His opinions are overly informed by his experience in Vietnam with men like LBJ and McNamara selling us out.

He's entitled to his opinion but my opinion is that his track record since the Gulf War is not good.

Do you seriously think, not having the forces that we had for Persian Gulf I, that we really could fight two MRC's at the same time?? Get serious, we can't get people (even prior service) in the pipeline that fast. We couldn't do it in WWII either, MacAuthur had to do the impossible with nothing. Rummy botched that one (two MRC comment). It is my observation that Hackworth seems to have redeemed himself with latest book and coorelation to present crisis. i've read BLACKHAWK DOWN author criticisms...Hack did not make comment, rather cited RAMPARTS for source on Garrison overhead in chopper, again, bad info from generally reputable source. i have already stated that i do not wish to defend this guy, i have too many objections to some of his ideas (mainly that they are unconstitutional). He is however, more qualified than any of us to pontificate from the perspective of the guy on the ground.

He's entitled to his opinion but my opinion is that his track record since the Gulf War is not good.

Well, he was right about one thing. I remember after the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, Hackworth went ballistic on TV, slamming the Clinton administration for doing little to nothing about terrorism. He predicted, at that time, that terrorism was going to be THE major force that needed to be dealt with, ASAP.

Now, though, he seems to make no sense when he's on TV. He's all over the place! On one hand, he predicts a bad outcome in Iraq, because he feels that, like Vietnam, "we don't know the enemy" and "we won't have a clear idea of why we're there." (I heard him say this on some Fox show, I can't remember which one.)

THEN, in the next breath, Hackworth predicted the war in Iraq would hardly have started before it was over with, presumably because of OUR strength, and THEIR weakness. Since I doubt he was predicting a Hussein victory here, I can't figure out what, exactly, he meant regarding his concerns for going to war with Iraq.