Re: OT, Supporting our troops

Posted by Paul in Mich on August 03, 2005 at 07:07:47 from (205.188.117.66):

In Reply to: Re: OT, Supporting our troops posted by John S-B on August 02, 2005 at 06:40:08:

Whenever I hear someone (Sect. Rumsfield) state that we go to war with the army we have rather than the one we wish we had, I am reminded of Gen. Geo. McClellan, the civil war general (Union Army) who never had the army he wish he had even though he had the best army of his day. This caused him to be indecisive, and ultimately caused the deaths of many more soldiers than he would have had he simply fought the battle with the army he had. Antietam is a sad legacy to that indecisiveness, as he had forced Lee"s badly battered army back to Virginia but didnt pursue and thus allowed Lee to regroup. That alone allowed the war to rage on for nearly 2 1/2 more years. There is no perfect war with a perfect battle plan with perfect equipment. Today"s army may not have everything perfectly in place, but while not every soldier has the latest and greatest in body armor or up armored vehicles, the soldiers of the U.S. military are provided with far more than their ancestors, and the reduction in casualties bear it out. Those who would wait until they had the army they wish they had most certainly would be smitten with the same fate as Gen. McClellan, just another sad chapter in American Military history. John, your point is well taken, and the anynomous person who initiated this thread simply echos the talking points of the propaganda bandied about by the leftist anti war activists who claim to be against war, but in all reality fight wars they know they can win such as the 1956 invasion of Hungary or the 1968 crushing of the Czech rebelion.

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