How to lose in Iraq
John Burns:
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"It is a task that General Sanchez believes is within grasp. In a conversation at his headquarters in the Republican Palace in Baghdad a few days before the trip to Abu Saida, he said that despite the scale of warfare that has disappointed and even shocked many Americans, allied forces here could fail only if the political will of the United States faltered. 'I really believe that the only way we are going to lose here, is if we walk away from it like we did in Vietnam,' he said. 'If the political will fails, and the support of the American public fails, that's the only way we can lose.' "
Of course, the only way that happens is if Democrats get power in the Congress or executive.
On Gen. Sanchez youth:
"In time, the boy became the first in his family to graduate from high school. While his older brother went to Vietnam as a staff sergeant with the Air Force, he won an R.O.T.C. scholarship to Texas A & I University in Kingsville, and went on to join the Army. He speaks with no trace of bitterness about his origins.
" 'I guess I never realized then that I was that poor,' he said in an interview before the trip to Abu Saida. 'Pretty well everybody else in the Hispanic community was on welfare, too. We just thought we were fortunate because we were in America.' "
John Burns:
...
"It is a task that General Sanchez believes is within grasp. In a conversation at his headquarters in the Republican Palace in Baghdad a few days before the trip to Abu Saida, he said that despite the scale of warfare that has disappointed and even shocked many Americans, allied forces here could fail only if the political will of the United States faltered. 'I really believe that the only way we are going to lose here, is if we walk away from it like we did in Vietnam,' he said. 'If the political will fails, and the support of the American public fails, that's the only way we can lose.' "
Of course, the only way that happens is if Democrats get power in the Congress or executive.
On Gen. Sanchez youth:
"In time, the boy became the first in his family to graduate from high school. While his older brother went to Vietnam as a staff sergeant with the Air Force, he won an R.O.T.C. scholarship to Texas A & I University in Kingsville, and went on to join the Army. He speaks with no trace of bitterness about his origins.
" 'I guess I never realized then that I was that poor,' he said in an interview before the trip to Abu Saida. 'Pretty well everybody else in the Hispanic community was on welfare, too. We just thought we were fortunate because we were in America.' "
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