Range editor, veteran makes insightful observation about ‘surge’

Hibbing Daily Tribune editor Mike Jennings made an interesting observation Sunday based on his experience serving in Vietnam in regard to today’s debate over the success of the so-called surge:

Could we have sustained what seemed in 1970 a durable degree of security in Vietnam? Of course. All that was necessary was to keep American boots, and plenty of them, on the ground. Indefinitely. Because the North Vietnamese were prepared to wait us out.

Today, America and the Iraqi government appear to be winning their war. But in 1970 America and South Vietnam also appeared to be winning theirs. In concrete terms, if not always in appearance, we were winning the Vietnam War almost up to the very moment that we lost it.

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