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The Battle of Fallujah VI
"Some people, including some of my fellow conservatives, had taken exception to our pull back from Fallujah; they read it, with some grounds for so believing, as an apparant blow to American prestige. Indeed, the enemy distinctly played it up that way and, of course, the critics of the war read it that way. What people forgot or, at least in the case of the anti-war people, didn't know is that battles and wars are not won so much by conquering territory and killing the enemy as they are by convincing the enemy that he cannot win. Napoleon said it, and it will always remain true in war - the morale is to the material as three is to one. The reason we were beaten in Vietnam was because of a collapse of morale - not initially in the troops or in the American people, but first in the political leadership of the United States, which then trickled down to the troops and the people." [Blogs for Bush]
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