Window of Opportunity in Iraq
BY Herschel Smith
16 years, 11 months ago
In the spirit of The Strong Horse in Counterinsurgency, Victor Davis Hanson, who recently won the National Humanities Medal, observed of the turning of the Anbari tribes to the U.S.:
… the US military has eliminated a large number of terrorists, insurgents and general terrorists since 2003. Given the noxious fumes of Vietnam-era “body-counts
On November 18, 2007 at 3:51 am, Brian H said:
It’s yet one more calumny to lay at the feet of the Democrat left that the “noxious fumes” of the Vietnam body counts came entirely from their own ideological halitosis. North Vietnamese sources have since revealed that the American estimates, with rare and insignificant exceptions, were startlingly accurate or even conservative. The fumers achieved one of the all-time triumphs of the “Bullshit Baffles Brains” strategy.