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2015-08-09 Home Front: WoT

3 U.S. Defeats: Vietnam, Iraq and Now Iran

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Technically, Iraq was won, then thrown away similar to winning WWI only to have to return again in WWII because the corrupt, petty, tribal, and incompetent locals and a similar American administration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-09 08:45|| 2015-08-09 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 IMO Brooks is making a mistake grouping these events.

Vietnam was a limited war in the context of a global cold war.

Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan are parts of bigger war.

On 9/11 2001 the there was a massive attack on American soil. The attacker did not observe any limits when selecting targets.

Without these attacks there would have been no conflict and Western defeat in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.

The US could afford to lose the Vietnam war because it was a limited war. The US and NATO could not and cannot afford the 9/11 war and yet the 9/11 war is lost.

The world now knows that a massive attack on the US will make the US & the West docile, submissive and obedient. Such an attack is a winning move, not a mistake.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-08-09 13:14|| 2015-08-09 13:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Democrat Defeat. They and their base actively undermine and perform sedition to cause defeat in the jaws of victory

Posted by Frank G on the road 2015-08-09 14:07|| 2015-08-09 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Youse got it backwards EH, if we had avoided the Vietnam fiasco by revisiting Hanoi and Haiphong during their their last offensive none of this other shitery would have happened.

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-09 15:56|| 2015-08-09 15:56|| Front Page Top

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