Reply #6: Failing to learn from history

[atreides1]

Didn't Hitler say the same thing about Stalingrad?

This seems to describe the JCS and the generals on the ground:
"Paulus' inability or unwillingness to save his men by taking a decision against the will of Hitler to extricate the army from an impossible position puts him in an historically unfavorable light."

And this sounds more and more like Iraq everyday:
"Paulus was refused permission to break out of the encirclement, and the 6th Army was consequently overrun together with its Romanian allies and Russian auxiliary troops when the lack of ammunition, equipment attrition and the physical health of the German troops prevented them from defending effectively against the Red Army in late January 1943."

I'm not saying that Bush is like Hitler, just looking at some of the similarities in their "leadership" styles.