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DallasNE

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1. How Many "Limited Duration, Protective Reaction" Bombing Campaigns Did We Have

Reply to Kablooie (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 03:02 AM

Sep 2013

Announced by Melvin Laird in Vietnam. Not one of them did any good but it was like Nixon felt they had to be doing something so he sent the hapless Laird out there to announce still another bombing campaign. And perhaps the biggest blunder was when Nixon went with a wider war as he invaded the parrot's beak area of Cambodia and because of the destabilization that caused it was not long after that that Pol Pot came to power and depopulated the country with his killing fields.

My fear is not that we will repeat the mistakes of Iraq but that we will repeat the mistakes of Vietnam.

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Why do they always think that a few bombs will cow our adversaries? [View all] Kablooie Sep 2013 OP

How Many "Limited Duration, Protective Reaction" Bombing Campaigns Did We Have DallasNE Sep 2013 #1

They don't Scootaloo Sep 2013 #2

right...the way we used bombs to take out Osama Bin Laden... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #4

It's all they got... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #3

When China and Russia will veto it anyways? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #5

Sure they will, but before that the US and some others will never... TreasonousBastard Sep 2013 #7

Cos the US has lots of bombs. sibelian Sep 2013 #6