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>From: ljones@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (LeRoy E Jones)
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Subject: Re: 21st Century Soldier
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Date: 17 Sep 92 19:04:18 GMT
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In article <FeaZqB5w164w@underg.UUCP> max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray) writes:
>olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:
>

>Huh? Air power kicked alot of asses in Vietnam. Clearly it was the political
>micromanagement that lost Vietnam. If the president had said 'Take Out North
>Vietnam' we would have wiped them out mucho pronto. Getting into a war when
>you don't want to take out the enemy is a pretty stupid thnig to do. Desert
>Strom was better, but still we did not have the political will to take them
>out, and now look at all the problems we are having in Iraq.

Who is the enemy? People who had the "misfortune" of being born in a country
whose leadership pissed off the USA? Yeah, we could kill everyone, but we
as civilized people realize that the enemy is not the average civilian.


	-Lee


