Obama strategy could spawn future Vietnams

Dave Palmer returned from the jungles of Vietnam to teach at West Point. His topic: The history of the Vietnam War. As there was no textbook on the still-raging conflict, Palmer wrote one. At that point in the conflict, the American plan was simply to kill enough of the enemy to make them quit. Palmer’s textbook noted: “Attrition is not a strategy. It is, in fact irrefutable proof of the absence of any strategy.”