"Swingman" wrote in message
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"Charlie Self" wrote in message

There's too much love of the catchprhase and
buzzword in U. S. politics to

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If you can't get it on a bumper sticker, it's probably too tough to
grasp
for many these days.

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political generals like Westmoreland ("Light At The End of The
Tunnel"),
produced ill feelings that still are raw after 30 years.

If there was justice in this world, Westmoreland would have been
courtmartialed along with Calley.

For the most part, our
troops did a superb job, fighting with one hand tied behind their
backs in
a
war for which they were never trained,
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With all due respect, Charlie ... that is load of bull**** and is
what
typically happens when we leave the analysis of those times to the
Monday
morning quarterbacks. It is perpetuating a myth that was created by
the
anti-war crowd/media at the time as an excuse for the shortcomings
of the
politics involved. ALL units I served with _in the field_, including
an ARVN
Ranger outfit, were SUPERBLY trained for the job, and they were
certainly
not the exception. I can also say unequivocally that no unit I saw,
or was
associated with, in 13 months of field duty ever lost an engagement
with the
enemy, of any type ... and we were continuously "engaged".

To infer otherwise is not only wrong, but disrespectful in its
blatant
condescension, to those who fought ... IMNSHO.

but the politicians finally screwed them
over. As will happen again.

... but you're dead right about the f^%$# politicians.
Well said Swingman!!!!!! Hua!!!!!