It’s Obama’s war now, and a Vietnam-like quagmire is dead ahead.
by Helen Thomas | Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune, July 23, 2009
I had a flashback recently when I read a Washington Post news story about how the U.S. commander in Afghanistan thinks he may need many thousands more troops to win the war.Shades of Vietnam. Do we ever learn?
It brought back memories of the late Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Southeast Asia, who kept escalating the troop numbers after the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam. His strategy produced a debacle for us.
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It’s Obama’s war now, and a Vietnam-like quagmire is dead ahead.
by Helen Thomas | Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune, July 23, 2009
It brought back memories of the late Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Southeast Asia, who kept escalating the troop numbers after the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam. His strategy produced a debacle for us.
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