Walt Davidson wrote:

Pity nobody pulled your fat from the fire in Vietnam, OM.

Don't forget that ten years previously, we had defeated
single-handedly a communist jungle insurgency.

However, there are some countries to which you cannot tender advice,
and so when their turn came, it was all 'search and destroy',
choppers, and defoliants. I still remember the news film of the final
days, with helicopters being shoved over the sides of the ships,
rotors still turning.

Having learned nothing from this, they are proceeding to demonstrate
they are learning nothing from the current, erm, liberation, blessing,
I forget the PC word for it.

How long ago it seems, since "Mission Accomplished" was declared.

from
Aero Spike

Dr B F Jones: "...No-one on my staff had any visibility of large quantities of intelligence which proved conclusively there were weapons of mass destruction..."