2006-10-04 05:24:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Why did we not learn a thing? PRIDE. No one, specially the Commander in Chump, want to admit they screwed it up. They had bogus intel, sexed it up so that the gullible American people would eat it without looking in the sandwich. That is why this administration has not learned. Pride can blind the megalomaniac quicker that you can blink an eye. They see can see this was circling the drain yet still won't admit it. Gandhi said it best: "It is better to have ones own bad government, as oppose to someone else good government. When you try to take out the home team when their fans are behind them. You better come in with so much power and so many boots it would be like having enough ants to cover an elephant. And my recent polls some 70% of Iraqis say "Yankee go home"
2006-10-04 10:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nam and Iraq are way different. But to indulge you about nam,
they also say "From the Jaws of Victory we Snatched Defeat"
We never lost a single battle with the NVA. When we left, millions were slaughtered by the commie north. And the response of the anti-war left..........was silence.
So much for justice. If we had stayed in Nam, we would have won the peace. But hippies did not want to go.
What cost us Nam was the draft. Conscription is never good when you have a volunteer army. Without the draft, Vietnam would have been a success.
2006-10-04 05:29:56 · answer #2 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gotta grab this opportunity. Having fought in RVN '68-69, on the ground, in the paddies, not 200 mi. away on some boat, or making some general's coffee, I must have missed something. the American soldier was never concerned about 'winning' the war. He was concerned about staying alive and keeping the men with him alive. Killing the enemy was the only way . He could not run home. I read more than once that we came home with heads bowed in shame. What???!!! I came home with my head up and am still wondering what there was to win in that God forsaken hellhole, anyway? And if we lost, what did we lose? We lost a generation of America's best young men, that's what. Is it that easy to send other people's sons and daughters to thier death from the comfort of an easy chair by the fireplace ? If you've never been cut, then you have never bled.
2006-10-04 06:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by Raptor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because greed and a thirst for power are eternal in mankind.
2006-10-04 05:30:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋