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Originally Posted by Botnst
We lost Vietnam, not because the US military was unwilling or unable to fight. We lost because (as Bin Laden accurately opined) Americans have no stomach for war. That is the only major point in common between Iraq and Vietnam.
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Seems too broad a generalization. Americans have no stomach for unjustifiable wars if Vietnam and Iraq are the examples. Or as Rumsfeld puts it; the voters can't understand his complex war. Rumsfeld has the moral subtlety to appreciate the value of an imperial war which has killed 100-600,000 people whereas the average American with their simplistic morality finds killing people in those numbers in a non-defensive war unacceptable.