A failure in generalship

Armed Forces Journal by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling | Apr. 27, 2007 (Opinion)

For the second time in a generation, the United States faces the prospect of defeat at the hands of an insurgency. In April 1975, the U.S. fled the Republic of Vietnam, abandoning our allies to their fate at the hands of North Vietnamese communists. In 2007, Iraq's grave and deteriorating condition offers diminishing hope for an American victory and portends risk of an even wider and more destructive regional war.

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

An article which tells it like is really is by someone who should know. And who will be now destroyed by the American neo fascist government because that's the way neo fascists react--destroy all who dare oppose. At the runup to the war, one general did speak up, saying we needed three times more troops if America was ever to prevail. He was immediately fired. There is great danger afoot in this land.