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Originally Posted by Guest
After August 6 and 9, 1945 huge military expenditures like the millions of men and women involved in WWII is not needed. And you cannot just throw money at guerrilla soldiers. We lost the Vietnam war because we could not think like our enemy. To be able to beat ISIS will take media, psychological warfare, spies, religious leaders countering the message of ISIS, etc.
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We "lost" in Vietnam because politicians made rules that doomed ever winning. The enemy couldn't be followed into other countries or villages to be slaughtered. Our soldiers had their hands tied behind their backs. Just like they have ever since.
Soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan...they're targets. No wonder so many come back all f@cked up in the head compared to WWII. In WWII they got to FIGHT. They got to invade and kill everything they encountered. Not so for Vietnam and on...in those "wars", they had to act like polite English bobbies...not killing death machines. Being a target messes up your head.
You DON'T EVER "win the hearts and minds", a conquered people ALL need to go or you have an enemy for life.