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I happen to think Truman made the right decision in Korea - well, except that McArthur should have been treated the same way a PFC would have been if he'd disobeyed a direct order, or any junior Captain caught lying to his superiors to cover up doing a piss-poor job. There are a lot of reasons I think that, most of them have to do with Europe. If things spun too far out of control we could have had the Iron Curtain ending on the Atlantic.

Vietnam was a horse of a different color entirely. Bombing made sense up to about the time, say, that we equalled the tonnage dropped in Eurpoe during WWII. Somewhere shorty after that somebody should have been able to conclude that it wasn't accomplishing what we wanted it to do.

And the most important reason I'm hesitant to embark on an adventure in Syria, Mikey ... remember, there are a finite number of U.S. military personnel. If you commit more assets someplace like Syria, you could end up limiting your ability to respond someplace else - additional requirements in Iraq or Afghanistan, a flareup with North Korea, or who the hell knows what else. Now, I know that you will probably slide right by that since it doesn't fit in with your perception of my views, but at least I tried ...