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"Hack's" [the late Col. David Hackworth] pessimistic assessment was influenced by his own experiences fighting North Vietnamese guerillas but this "soldier's soldier" was also debriefing his beloved Iraq War "grunts." For the past couple of years, I've interviewed scores of American soldiers, asking them about their experiences in Iraq. I too heard accounts from these GIs that indicated that early on, the hearts and minds campaign to win over the Iraqi people was pretty much lost and with it, the war.
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For posterity's sake, I said this 2 1/2 years ago:
Personally, I think the time for winning the hearts and minds has long passed, the opportunity squandered.
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