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Offline cpxxx

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Re: Would JFK be a Democrat today?
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2008, 01:36:01 PM »
He did of course but apparently had his doubts about the wisdom of following up with troops. In the end the USA was sucked in further because of the general incompetence and in fighting among the ARVN commanders who were more interested in protected their own interests than that of the country. It's interesting to speculate but perhaps JFK would have handled the whole thing better than Johnson.

In the context of the times, Vietnam was another domino threatened by Communism. No one ever thought it would become the painful rite of passage that it became. It was if you like to use a reverse analogy, the Iraq of it's day. :huh

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Re: Would JFK be a Democrat today?
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2008, 04:30:39 PM »
He did of course but apparently had his doubts about the wisdom of following up with troops. In the end the USA was sucked in further because of the general incompetence and in fighting among the ARVN commanders who were more interested in protected their own interests than that of the country. It's interesting to speculate but perhaps JFK would have handled the whole thing better than Johnson.

In the context of the times, Vietnam was another domino threatened by Communism. No one ever thought it would become the painful rite of passage that it became. It was if you like to use a reverse analogy, the Iraq of it's day. :huh

The REAL problem with vietnam was the phrase "Win their hearts and their minds." 



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Re: Would JFK be a Democrat today?
« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2008, 04:34:58 PM »
Where have all the real democrats gone.   :(

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/kennedy-tax-today-2147837-national-new


Would Barry Goldwater be a Republican??  Both are good questions.

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Re: Would JFK be a Democrat today?
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2008, 05:33:59 PM »
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The REAL problem with vietnam was the phrase "Win their hearts and their minds."



You can't fight a war with Valentine's Day Cards.

That's exactly how you fight and win a 4th generation war. We were just really bad at executing "hearts and minds" in Vietnam (and uncle Ho was very good), and bad in Iraq until recent improvements. Fortunately, al queda was really bad in Iraq at 4th generation warfare as well. Unfortunately al Sadr might be very, very good at the concepts, moving towards a Hezbollah model apparently, according to William Lind (which also helps explain why things are "turning around.") http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csnews.cgi/csNews.cgi?database=homeWilliamLind12008.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=19&rnd=186.83811485428458



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