The U.S. had 3,200 military personnel in South Vietnam in 1961. The number grew the next year to 11,300. By 1968, there were 536,000.
Ponder that as our nation’s newest escapade of foolishness – in Iran – has tempted our bluffoons of war to play a sucker’s hand: committing ground troops.
The number committed for the Iran war is hard to nail because the government is withholding information. But news reports suggest the U.S. will send around 5,000 marines and 2,000 paratroopers.
Vietnam 1961.
It’s clear that the bluffoons who started this foolishness deluded themselves with faulty assumptions, underestimated the Iranian regime’s resolve and cared little about the global impact.
Their delusions now exposed, they have no plan for ending their misadventure. It will end, we’re told, when the bluffoon-in-chief who has never acknowledged a mistake can “feel it in my bones.”
Having no plan is a plan – to let pride and emotion rule as the man with the extraordinary sensory bones chases each of Iran’s daily refusals to capitulate with a bigger bad bet. It’s how this debacle grows even worse.
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