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Do you think American soldiers are put on too high of a pedestal

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RE: Do you think American soldiers are put on too high of a pedestal

January 20, 2017 at 2:21 pm

(January 20, 2017 at 1:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Yes, and between 1968 and 1972, nothing north of the 18th parallel, leaving those ports untouched and functional, until Linebacker II.

Thump, you seem to be forgetting that during that time Nixon and Kissinger were trying to negotiate peace. Forlorn as the hope may have been one thing that would have really put the kibosh on the talks would have been to keep bombing the enemy capital.

I get that. But offensive operations could and did go on during that period, from both sides. Would bombing northern cities have hampered it? Who knows? But LBII specifically was launched to get them back to the peace table after the deal Kissinger brokered fell apart. It seems to have worked.

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