Re: VIRTUAL JFK: Vietnam Had Kennedy Lived

On Apr 30, 8:08=A0pm, Anthony Marsh <anthony_ma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Gerry Simone wrote:
> > <billcla...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>news:094843cf-0bfe-424a-8ddf-8efd45582651@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Apr 28, 7:32 pm, "Gerry Simone" <newdecent...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> "pin head" <longiislandh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>> this is an almost stupid question.....of course it matters.....and
wha=
t
> >>> has history shown us ? to walk the middle is the path to sure
> >>> disaster......THE ONLY "successful" wars this country has ever
fought
> >>> are
> >>> the ones in which Overwhelming power was NOT held in
reserve......The
> >>> nature of the American Militray is to emplore a quick and
overwhelming=

> >>> win
> >>> via it's 1st rate technology and fire power.
> >> Are you saying that VN could've been won had overwhelming power been
us=
ed?
>
> > I don=92t know what Pinhead thinks but I think if we couldn=92t do it
wi=
th
> > half a million U.S. troops more troops wasn=92t the answer, although
> > noting that the foolish restrictions placed on our combat units
didn=92t=

> > help matters.
>
> > Yes, those restrictions didn't help.
>
> >> I'm Canadian so I'm not an expert on VN but wasn't it a guerilla war?
>
> > It was a guerilla war with a dose of politics thrown in. =A0The
communis=
t
> > called this =93revolutionary war=94. =A0You don=92t fight it with
overwh=
elming
> > power; you fight it by winning the hearts and minds so to speak.
=A0You =
do
> > this my giving them a stable and popular government, securing the
villag=
es
> > so the VC can=92t come in at night and assassinate the chief, giving
the=
m
> > medical care, land reform and so on. Overpowering force gets in the
way =
of
> > this. =A0Westmoreland squandered the early years with his large unit
sea=
rch
> > and destroy missions, Abrams made great progress after he got the
comman=
d
> > but it was much too late by then.
>
> Unfortunately that is NOT how much revolutions are foiled. Usually they
> are put down by brutal repression.

Oh Anthony, I just love it when you talk military!

Are you familiar with the results of Diem=92s brutal repression?

Bill Clarke