history repeating...

Once large numbers of US troops are commited to direct combat, they will begin to take heavy casualties in a war they are ill-equipped to fight...Once we suffer large casualties, we will have started a well-nigh irreversible process. Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives. Of the two possibilities I think humiliation would be more likely than the achievement of our objectives—even after we have paid terrible costs.

Esto se lo dijo George Ball al presidente de Estados Unidos.... pero no a Bush. Sino al presidente Lyndon B. Johnson. En los 60. Sobre Vietnam. Experimento en tiempo real de Escalation of Commitment.