Sad to say, but WW2 was the last war America fought to win. Every war since then has been a "Political Action" that was run by Congress, who does not understand how to fight to win, not Generals who do understand that to make war you must fight to win. There are no "holding actions" .
Since 68 - 70 in Vietnam, I have returned 5 times. Each time with native Vietnamese who I've become good friends with here. They all lost family in the South and were part of the "boat people evacuation post fall of South". One of them served in communist forced labor camp clearing mine fields as a 10 yr old girl for 5 years before making an escape. Each time I've returned, I've been advised that America snatched defeat from the jaws of victory numerous times. We now know how the war was run by politicians not by generals. As we watch our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, those same patterns are repeated. I rise in respect to all who served. I bow in prayer for the families of the men and women who gave all in each of these actions. Words are never enough. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: > I think, if it had been my decision, I would have taken note of what > happened to the Russians and said no thank you. > > > > On 26/05/2014 3:57 PM, WILTON wrote: > >> Afghanistan may have been necessary at first, but after we chased Taliban >> (let 'em get away) into sanctuary in Pakistan, we turned away from it, >> unfinished, to go into Iraq unnecessarily, likely based on lies and 'cause >> Saddam had tried to kill Boy Bush's Daddy. >> >> Wilton >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Bennell" <rbenn...@bennell.ca> >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 4:44 PM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - The Wall >> >> >> >> That was nice Wilton. >>> Sadly, we never seem to learn from past mistakes. >>> >>> I am in the process of reading a trilogy of books about WWII by Rick >>> Atkinson. The first (An Army at Dawn) is about North Africa, the second >>> about Italy (The Day of Battle) and the third (The Guns at Last Light) >>> about Europe. >>> I skipped the first and read the second and am now on the third. The >>> waste of young lives in Italy is truly amazing. I am only at the start of >>> the 3rd book - D Day but the whole process does not look to be much better. >>> I guess WWII was a necessary fight. I doubt that Viet Nam was and I >>> really have to wonder about the more recent ones like Afghanistan. >>> >>> Randy >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >>> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >>> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
