Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:47:05 -0800
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:36:09 -0800
> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >> It's a little disingenious to hide behind the success of World War II to
> >> whitewash over the utter failure of every military action since.
> >
> > "Every" US military action since WWII has been a "utter failure" ? The
> > first Gulf war (incontrovertibly a resounding success, the argument
> > being over whether we should have gone further)
>
> Failrue, we had to go back a decade later to finish the job.
>
> > , the Korean war (not a
> > victory, but hardly an utter failure),
>
> Failure, mission was not accomplished.
>
> > the Afghanistan campaign,
>
> Failure, we've hired warlords to hunt warlords again. Didn't we learn from
> working with bin Laden in the first place that you just can't trust
> warlords?
>
> > the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ?
>
> I'd hardly call any of the former Soviet-bloc stable.
Your definition of "utter failure" is ... interesting.
Celejar
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