(03-30-2020, 11:19 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(03-30-2020, 10:05 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Uhhh.. yes it's the President's job to keep the American people calm and focused... and in a pandemic where he has extended the self-isolation until the end of April... hope is a pretty important component of that.

LBJ was part of the problem in Vietnam.. our soldiers never lost a battle but our politicians lost the war.

1) I don't think you understood my post regarding the end of April.  I agree with that assessment.

2) SERIOUSLY ?  WE NEVER LOST A BATTLE IN VIETNAM ?  You gotta be kidding me.  We lost plenty of battles in Vietnam, primarily as a result of being outnumbered and not being aware of jungle tactics.  We can save that discussion for another thread.

56,000 versus 2,000,000+

Yea... that was a war lost entirely by the politicians.

And when the battles won versus battles lost is about 500 to 1... it's pretty easy to make a blanket statement like that. Every time the military would make gains the politicians would give them another stupid rule or limitation... which of course led to the eventual genocide of millions.

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