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Originally posted by Centurion
You really do live in the past. It's PRESENT day, and it's NOT WWII! In WWII, we had STRONG allies fighting WITH US! Now we have only a few thousand brits and a couple thousand Aussies.
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FYI I am fully aware that The Second World War is over. I am fully aware that the US had allies. If there was a point to be made, you failed.
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And as for your repeated figure of putting 16 million into "uniform"..let's break that down a bit:
1)That number is not 16 million at ONE time..it was over a course of several years!
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Wrong. When the Second World War ended we had sixteen million people in uniform.
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2)Because you are in "uniform" does not mean you are on the front lines fighting. Well over HALF of that number were purely support personnel..with most of them stationed in the U.S.
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FYI I am fully aware what percentage of forces are support and what are combatants. I spent 12 years in the Army. FYI it is approximately 90% support and 10% combatants.
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But again, you're point of going back to WWII is totally irrelevant to today's conflicts. And I notice you even left out the Koren War (where the best we could do was a "draw"), Vietnam..where we lost.
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Wrong. Truman made a political decision to hold at the 38th Parallel, which was the border prior to North Korea invading the South.
Wrong. There was not a military loss in Vietnam and we could have ended the war in one day with the use of Nukes, within thirty days with 24/7 conventional bombing (11 days of 24/7 brought them to the peace table), within ninety days with ground forces if the military would have been allowed to invade the North.
It was politicians that micro managed the war and extended the war and it was politicians that agreed to withdraw our forces. There was not a military loss in any form, but a political decision was made to withdraw our forces.
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To say we put 16 million in uniform back in the '40s does not equate to front line invasion, conquering, and occupying several Muslim countries TODAY.
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Of course you are right. The USA does not have the power to defeat a bunch of third world nations. The USA is at their mercy. We will allow them to attack us at will. We are helpless. I am making arrangements at the local Mosque today to become a Muslim. Allah be praised.