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Originally Posted by Azure
Or by a government, Democrat and Republican, who don't have the guts to fight the war in a way where success could actually be achieved.
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Agreed and I would say that is the reason except Iraq is just another in a long list of US military failures since Vietnam - the first Iraq war just to name one.
Now yes, that might be blamed on the President/Senate/Congress at the time but Eisenhower and Churchill didnt direct military strategy durring the war, they may not have hamstrung it but they didnt direct it either.
It was the Generals who started to carpet bomb German cities which is what won the war for the Allies.
Generals in Iraq could easily order the same type of thing in Iraq, yes politicians might cut their career short but Generals are men that should be on a different level than everyone else, they should be willing to do what is necessary to win.
MYK