"Swingman" <[email protected]> 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
>
> snip
>
> If you can't get it on a bumper sticker, it's probably too tough to
grasp
> for many these days.
>
> snip
> 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,
> snip
>
> With all due respect, Charlie ... that is load of bullshit 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!!!!!