Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:36:09 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> It's a little disingenious to hide behind the success of World War II to >> whitewash over the utter failure of every military action since. > > "Every" US military action since WWII has been a "utter failure" ? The > first Gulf war (incontrovertibly a resounding success, the argument > being over whether we should have gone further)
Failrue, we had to go back a decade later to finish the job. > , the Korean war (not a > victory, but hardly an utter failure), Failure, mission was not accomplished. > the Afghanistan campaign, Failure, we've hired warlords to hunt warlords again. Didn't we learn from working with bin Laden in the first place that you just can't trust warlords? > the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ? I'd hardly call any of the former Soviet-bloc stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
