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Joey
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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #4947 - May 2nd, 2011 at 5:46pm
" Retrospective assessment of missed opportunities in the Vietnam War is bittersweet at best . While demonstrating that more effective options were available at many stages of the war , such calculations also remind us that time after time those chances were missed, ignored , rejected or proscribed on the basis of one rationale or another . The signposts along the road of better alternatives are numerous , and include the selection of William C. Westmoreland as United States Commander in Vietnam , LBJ's failure to call up reserve forces or to effectively mobilize public support for U.S. involvement in the war , failure to take the war to the enemy -- and in particular to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail , neglect of the enemy infrastructure in South Vietnam's villages for too many years , failure to develop South Vietnamese forces during the period of American domination of the war , a year's delay in Abram's succession to the top command , and in consequence of all these the squandering of literally years of substantial support from the American Public , Congress and even the media . " 
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