03-11-2005, 12:31 PM
Just another KNOW it All who has the benefit of hindsight.
Agree Jiggers, I get tired of people looking back and pointing out the deficencies with strategies employed 60 years ago.
War is war, it sucks, bad sh*t happens and the one underlying constant is that men will make mistakes. No one knows how they will react under those circumstances until it actually happens.
Sitting back and pointing fingers 60 years after the fact serves no purpose and in my eyes, diminishes what those Marines achieved. I understand the need for us to learn from our mistakes so as not to repeat them but there is no point in this type of stuff. Leave the politics out of it, make it analytical and I'm good with it.