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bemildred

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2. It's classic really.

Reply to unhappycamper (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 07:50 AM

Aug 2015

And predicted before it happened.

I remember posting a story from 2002 wherein Vo Nguyen Giap said we would lose just like in Vietnam. And I considered it was obvious then we were going to accomplish squat because we refuse to learn squat. Belligerence is not a strategy, and as a tactic it is very weak, it makes you predictable and exposes you to ambushes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5_Nguy%C3%AAn_Gi%C3%A1p

Audacity is all very well but it doesn't win wars.

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We were unable to do much in the 14 years we've been there. unhappycamper Aug 2015 #1

It's classic really. bemildred Aug 2015 #2