badbob
08-29-02, 12:50 PM
With serious talk of war in Iraq, certain media folks have begun to criticize and question our President as to the mission and referencing the Mistakes made in Vietnam.
Personally I don’t want the world to know the mission, that could cost American lives
Speaking as a Vietnam Combat Veteran, I’m here to tell the World that we will never make the Vietnam Mistake again.
There’s almost a million living Vietnam Vets who will never allow another Vietnam.
The problem with almost all who criticize the Vietnam mistake, they do not really understand what the mistakes were.
It wasn’t a mistake to send Marines to Vietnam in 1965, I was one, I know firsthand.
It was however a tremendous mistake, to take a large force of Marines who were experts in every aspect of offensive tactics and place us in a defensive position. Marines have always been trained to attack not defend.
It was a mistake to send Americans to war without a clearly defined, “Win-able Mission”.
It was a mistake not to increase the bombings in the North that really were having a tremendous impact on the enemy, and would have brought a different and quicker end.
As I see it, we have strong leadership moving in the right direction with the right mission, using the correct tactics, and before it’s all over, we will fight many battles in the Middle East, We Will Win them All, and we will do so with minimal American casualties.
No, there will never ever be another Vietnam Mistake involving American Troops.
War without a mission is pure insanity for those ordered to fight it. He who orders such a mistake in the future, will suffer swift, political self-destruction, you can trust your Vietnam Vets will lead this mission.
The same folks, who were against the Vietnam War in 1965, have come out of the woodwork again. If given a chance, they will render this President as ineffective and afraid to act as Johnson became in 1966. Only difference today, if we don’t take decisive action, we, the American civilian population will have a wall of our own, and it’ll be a much larger Wall than the Vietnam War Memorial.
Semper Fi,
Bob Neener
0351 1964-1968
Personally I don’t want the world to know the mission, that could cost American lives
Speaking as a Vietnam Combat Veteran, I’m here to tell the World that we will never make the Vietnam Mistake again.
There’s almost a million living Vietnam Vets who will never allow another Vietnam.
The problem with almost all who criticize the Vietnam mistake, they do not really understand what the mistakes were.
It wasn’t a mistake to send Marines to Vietnam in 1965, I was one, I know firsthand.
It was however a tremendous mistake, to take a large force of Marines who were experts in every aspect of offensive tactics and place us in a defensive position. Marines have always been trained to attack not defend.
It was a mistake to send Americans to war without a clearly defined, “Win-able Mission”.
It was a mistake not to increase the bombings in the North that really were having a tremendous impact on the enemy, and would have brought a different and quicker end.
As I see it, we have strong leadership moving in the right direction with the right mission, using the correct tactics, and before it’s all over, we will fight many battles in the Middle East, We Will Win them All, and we will do so with minimal American casualties.
No, there will never ever be another Vietnam Mistake involving American Troops.
War without a mission is pure insanity for those ordered to fight it. He who orders such a mistake in the future, will suffer swift, political self-destruction, you can trust your Vietnam Vets will lead this mission.
The same folks, who were against the Vietnam War in 1965, have come out of the woodwork again. If given a chance, they will render this President as ineffective and afraid to act as Johnson became in 1966. Only difference today, if we don’t take decisive action, we, the American civilian population will have a wall of our own, and it’ll be a much larger Wall than the Vietnam War Memorial.
Semper Fi,
Bob Neener
0351 1964-1968