Oh crap, the lights came back on in Massachusetts (not the ones in their heads unfortunately)
Steve,
I still believe in what had to be done. But just like Viet Nam the politicos, urged on by the likes of you, screwed the pooch. The idea was right, the implementation was totally wrong. We needed more boots on the ground. Instead you would have sent a couple of CM's at their aspirin factory.
Now all of these Generals are stepping forward and airing their views when they were too cowardly to do it when they were in uniform. We need more Hackworth's and fewer powdered and perfumed princes of the Pentagon.
You don't see priests and rabbis standing in the pulpit instructing the men of the congregation to beat their wives in the "soft spots" and don't hit them in the face so as to make them ugly. Nor do you see anything like it on US or Israeli TV not only condoning but urging that it be done. It's not even a valid comparison (but then you don't really care about things like that).