If/When I go back in I'm going CA. I figure they could use an infantryman's perspective :)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Russel Madere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:28 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Looks like the military is working on a > fall-back plan in Iraq > > It is even worse than that. The people of this nation, > regardless of political affiliation have adopted the attitude > that history does not apply any more or they are too smart to > allow the problems of the past to happen. Guess what folks? > It does and it did! > > I'm an old Cold Warrior. I expected to fight my war across > the plains of central europe. I also expected to die > grusomely within 30 minutes of contact of the enemy. The > lessons that would apply then were from WWII, superior > firepower and the ability to deliver it would win the war. > > The military leaders of today are also Cold Warriors. Few of > them served in the jungles of South East Asia. They lacked > the perspective to properly apply the lessons of Viet Nam. > Now they are learning. We are in an insurgency. Superior > firepwoer is not the naswer, proper, unambiguous application > of the firepower is the answer. > > This nation also never learned a lesson from the War Between > the States, Civil Affairs units are needed. Engineers and > MPs aren't enough. We need CA people on the ground getting > the local populace into the fight against the insurgents. > > >I swear it's like these people didn't take any history classes, like > >most of them weren't already in gov't service when Vietnam > was ending. > >Don't they remember that this is basically what we did then. They > >forget about when the Embassy fell? The NVA armor rolling over the > >corpses of the people we promised to protect? > > > >Makes me sick. > > > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229929 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
