i'll continue to keep our friends and family serving in every part of the world in our prayers. rip to the ones that have made the ultimate sacrifice performing their duties.
Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
A small scale Vietnam...only minor differences are that in Vietnam they lost 40X that number and we lost the fight.
i wouldn't draw a close comparison, but in modern day terms iraq is going the route of a small scale vietnam.
Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
We WILL achieve our goals in Iraq.
when? do we stay until we've lost 40k? <- sarcasm. but our plan doesn't seem to be working.
Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
This will work people...unless we failed to learn the lesson on Vietnam, namely letting popular oppinion prohibit the military from doing what it needs to do to win.
that's not the reason we lost/withdrew from vietnam. we lost and left because of miscalculations that caused extreme casualties and failure to devise a realistic plan to win peace. very similar to iraq... 
