That doesn't mean the dimbulb understood it.
Well it means you were wrong when you claimed he never read it. He did. As for being a dimbulb ... he still managed to make it through the Naval Academy and that's no small feat. What are your educational credentials, by the way?
I kind of doubt he would even have graduated had someone not been just afrtaid enough of daddy McCain's stars to send the drooling maniac home. You do know how far from the bottom of the class the jerk was, don't you?
Actually, he did fine in most of the course work. The reason he didn't graduate high in class ranking was because he had a lot of demerits and those figure into it. He was a maverick even then.
And since you want to sneer at him, where did you graduate in your class? You did graduate from a university, didn't you, lefty?
Now tell me what people's war was ever put down by military force without nearly wiping out of enslaving the rebellious people.
Off the top of my head? Iraq.
Giap may have been thinking that Nixon was just enough of a thug to ignore the fact that we would not have tolerated the extermination of the Vietnamese.
Johnson was president at the time of Tet, lefty. And for the record, after we left Vietnam, it was the North Vietnamese who engaged in extermination. Hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese died. Studies indicate 165,000 people alone died in the *re-education* camps. Conditions were so bad that millions fled, taking their chances as boat people. Between 100,000 and 250,000 died on those boats, lefty. Yet you no doubt voted for John Kerry who assured the public that no more than a few thousand would die when we withdrew from Vietnam.
As for ignoring generals, don't get so smug. You may recall that Rummy and the dummy thought they were better strategists than Shinseki.
This is sooooooo funny. Here you are championing a candidate who was against the war back in 2003 and that has insisted we cut and run at every opportunity since then. But General Shinseki, didn't object to the invasion and instead of withdrawing wanted to put hundreds of thousands more soldiers in Iraq post war. And I seriously doubt that Shinseki will be voting for Obama.
And don't you realize it wasn't feasible ... then or now ... to up the number of US forces by hundreds of thousands? Where were we going to get the forces, lefty? Borrow them from the Chinese? Wait a year to enlist and train them? And during that time, what would Saddam and the terrorists in Iraq have been doing?
Also, Rumsfeld's complaint with Shinseki was that he was fixated on the wrong type of war. Shinseki wanted to maintain the size of the Army at the cost of not enlarging special forces and the Marines ... the type of forces that have turned out to be especially useful in the WOT and in Iraq. Shinseki wanted systems, like the Crusader, which are not relevant to the current threats.
Boy were they wrong. The next couple months showed that Shinseki, who built the force that Rummy piddled away, was right. Had they done it right in the first place, there would have been no supply of old artillery shells to make IEDs.
That's debatable since we found tens of thousands of hidden ammunition caches that Saddam had prepositioned in preparation for the insurgency. Perhaps all you'd have done would been to give Saddam even more time to hide ammunition caches and train terrorists (like it's Fedayeen) in using those caches. Perhaps all you would have done is given the terrorists more targets.
And don't try to feed me that crap about Reagan winning the Cold War. Osama had almost as much to do with that as had old Jelly Brain.
ROTFLOL! There comes a time in every debate with a lefty that one doesn't really need to continue. They've shot themselves in the foot enough times that one can be confident that very few people are going to give that lefty much credibility. I think we've reached that pont in this debate, lefty.
