Due to insufficient planning and lack of a workable entrance strategy, soldiers of the 1st and 29th Infantry as well as Army Rangers are now bogged down and sustaining heavy casualties inflicted on them by dug-in insurgent positions
Whether the second in command should have gone into hiding during such a crisis will have to be answered at some future time, but many agree it does not send a good signal.
yes it's last weeks news and there's a slant but i thought it was interesting and saw the potentail for a good thread.
My goal is to live forever. So far so good.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
I can already see the flames comming.
Random Conservative: I love it, it shows that even our great victories had problems from the start. Dday had much less casualties then expected in unfavorable conditions. Look what the war did for the economy too!
Random Liberal: This situiation is completly different from whats going on today. How can you even apply it. We dont have a 25% unemployment rate. Our enemies made themselves clear back then. We dont have the draft now.
Basically this back and forth, an inteligent post here and there.
OH yeah ha ha ha what a masterful piece of satire lampooning how teh liberal media is always so negative.
It's bullshit and even as a piss-take it's too florid and OTT.
And anyway (here it comes) IF we were currently in a truly threatening survivial situation our democratic gorvernments would have become temprarily totalitarian as they did during WW2. With good and justifiable cause. And then you most certainly would not see reporting such as is in that stupid article.
