Lieberman contends that the problem is a shortage of troops on the ground in Iraq. I seem to recall similar contentions being made concerning the ongoing "police action" in Vietnam in the 1970s.
Well, he's right. In theory, if the entire millions of troops and billions of dollars of US Armed Forces as they existed in AD 1945 were unleashed in Iraq (or Vietnam), we could obliterate every human being in that entire region. In reality, perhaps the lack of manpower isn't the real, fundamental problem in these situations.
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Lieberman contends that the problem is a shortage of troops on the ground in Iraq. I seem to recall similar contentions being made concerning the ongoing "police action" in Vietnam in the 1970s.
Well, he's right. In theory, if the entire millions of troops and billions of dollars of US Armed Forces as they existed in AD 1945 were unleashed in Iraq (or Vietnam), we could obliterate every human being in that entire region. In reality, perhaps the lack of manpower isn't the real, fundamental problem in these situations.