'The war that has to be won': but will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?

Bing West served in Vietnam as a Marine. His son is a Marine vet of Iraq. He has a lot of great stuff in books and columns about the War on Terror, as it used to be called in the old days. His book The Village, is a classic about the CAP program in Vietnam.

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