Reply #88: It is funny Nadin - the first thing you learn in school - [View All]

[Joe for Clark]

is you don't know anything about war that can realistically be projected on another war.

It is a hard thing to come to terms with - cause it means - you really don't know.

I didn't like that - but I came to know they were right.

So you fight a war with only the knowledge of the past wars - that is all you can know.

Who are these "many observers" that know civil wars - the hardest to understand by definition.

They know nothing - and the most dangerous people are those that profess to know that do not.

I don't know anything Nadin - I just understand likely tactics - not outcomes.

I have tried to say - over and over - I just want the kids out of there - I know this is not their fight - and they are too young and stupid not to call bullshit. I am trying to call bullshit for the kids. BULLSHIT!

Joe