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dutch777

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2. As I learned in the army, it is just mind over matter...they (politicians) don't mind and we (soldiers) don't matter.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:58 AM

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A good quote from Robert McNamara when LBJ decided to escalate US troop numbers in Vietnam in 1965 and let them move from "advisors" to taking over combat operations. "...and now loose the law of unanticipated consequences"

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