On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:29:49 -0700, Fly-by-Night CC wrote:
In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:

Well, it's not like they don't continue to do staggeringly stupid things
over and over.

And I'm sure many of the world believe we've done some staggeringly
stupid things as well - training and equipping Bin Laden or making such
a national flap over a leader's infidelities come to mind.

It wasn't about his infidelities, it was about him not having the balls
to own up to them. Looked right in the camera and told the world he
hadn't done it, remember? Then, did the same with congress.

Too, I'm sure
glad we showed those French how to put those Vietnamese in their places
when they failed.

Yes, sometimes things get ****ed up so bad that they can't be fixed by
an incompetant military strategy. I don't consider Johnson to be an
example of a great strategist, do you?