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Amskeptic wrote:

wcfvw69 wrote: By 1943, the Americans were in the game full force. America had it's immense war industry hitting on 8 cylinders and the outcome of the war against the Germans and Japanese was all but over.

. . . and that is the key to any lasting victory. We did have truth on our side.

. . . we did not have truth on our side in Vietnam, or Iraq, and that is what pisses me off the very deepest about the damage to our young soldiers, to our treasury, to our good name, to this very moment.
Colin

(p.s. thank God the gunner missed the power plant at the Wolfsburg plant, huh? He was pissed, was it an itchy nose? but he missed and it gave us Volkswagens by the millions)

72Hardtop wrote: The truth was there...

72Hardtop wrote: it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.

wcfvw69 wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:

72Hardtop wrote: The truth was there...

What was it?

72Hardtop wrote: it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.

This makes no sense. We prosecuted our war effort during WW II from Washington. What are you really saying?
Colin

The big difference was that Roosevelt trusted his Generals and allowed them to prosecute the war. Yes, he was hands on and very involved but his top general (and un-appreciated by historians, George Marshall) was exceptionally brilliant and talented. Marshall lead the overall American strategy.

BTW, if it was not for the Marshall plan that help put Europe back together after the conclussion of the European conflict, we all might not be enjoying our VW's.

wcfvw69 wrote:

wcfvw69 wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:

72Hardtop wrote: The truth was there...

What was it?

72Hardtop wrote: it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.

This makes no sense. We prosecuted our war effort during WW II from Washington. What are you really saying?
Colin

The big difference was that Roosevelt trusted his Generals and allowed them to prosecute the war. Yes, he was hands on and very involved but his top general (and un-appreciated by historians, George Marshall) was exceptionally brilliant and talented. Marshall lead the overall American strategy.

BTW, if it was not for the Marshall plan that help put Europe back together after the conclussion of the European conflict, we all might not be enjoying our VW's.