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Thread: Robert McNamara
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5th November 2010, 14:03 #11
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Too late. Iraq is proof of that.
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5th November 2010, 14:08 #12
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Originally Posted by HondoI could really use a fish right now
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5th November 2010, 14:10 #13
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Originally Posted by Eki
...McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn....
That is a load of BS, Kennedy was known to be one for whom defeat was not a concept to be accepted.
Johnson had the North at their knees when rg the bombing halt giving them the chance to re-equip.
McNamara is the one who forced the Air Force to fly routes which allowed the North to simply sit and wait for them, as they flew the same routes time, after time, after time, after time, after time....
McNamara asinine concept of how he would decimate the Viet-Cong was incredibly stupid as they were fighting the North Vietnamese, the Cong were a minor concern.
To say he was not stupid is to ignore what he did.
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5th November 2010, 14:19 #14
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Originally Posted by Bob RiebeI could really use a fish right now
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5th November 2010, 14:23 #15
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Originally Posted by Eki
An interesting, off-topic aside, read about how Siam (Thailand) while assisting the allies during WWII, had to send its Air Force to attack U.S. aircraft so as to not make the Japanese suspicious.
They did manage to shoot down a B-29, and a P-38, but lost their own airmen and aircraft in the attacks.
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5th November 2010, 16:12 #16
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Originally Posted by Bob RiebeI could really use a fish right now
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5th November 2010, 16:43 #17
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Originally Posted by StarterI could really use a fish right now
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5th November 2010, 19:15 #18
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Originally Posted by Eki
What's interesting above all for me is the humanity element, how priorities change. Bob Riebe sustains that McNamara was stupid based on his actions, a valid argument, but it depends on whether your priorities were winning the war or reducing human loss (a priority usually lacking in war, on all sides).
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5th November 2010, 22:33 #19
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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
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