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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/10/2009 8:08:16 PM

slvemike4u

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

A secretary that was pro military, and not a pollitsion. Kennedy started it. Johnson and Mcnamara screwed it up and Nixon ended it..

Okay servant I'll bite,lets say you have this custom built pro military Secretary......what exactly does he need to do different that enables us to persevere in South East Asia.What new policies does he need to convince his President to undertake.....escalate the bombing...wait we did that.Conduct an illegal and covert war in Laos and Cambodia....oh wait we did that.Conduct political assinations....oh wait we did that.
Damm servant,what would your hypothetical secretary do?

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/10/2009 11:50:10 PM

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As long as the US refused to invade and overrun North Vietnam they were doomed to lose the war. They may not have won by overrunning the North (see Korea for reference), but they had no chance as long as the enemy had a safe haven.

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