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Yeah, the US totally fail at ORM. Wait... wat?

• cema 13y ago
  Perceptions. Just like US did not fail in Vietnam but failed in the public opinion, ORM are doing a good (well, at least passable) job of doing what they are intended to do, but are generally hated.
  • rodgerd 13y ago
    > Just like US did not fail in Vietnam In the alternate history where the US did not turn tail and run out of Vietnam like a whipped dog, abandoning their former allies in the south to be utterly subsumed by their enemies from the north, how did the 1976 election turn out. Was it still Carter?
    • cema 13y ago
      Let's leave politics to a different thread on a different site.
      • GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
        I think it's a legit reply, are you gonna answer it?
      • rodgerd 13y ago
        If you don't want politics, feel free to refrain from talking about them.
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Just like US did not fail in Vietnam but failed in the public opinion This is self contradictory. Failure of national morale in war is actually how wars are normally lost, not somehow something different than normal defeat. And its relevant to the analogy, in that... > ORM are doing a good (well, at least passable) job of doing what they are intended to do, but are generally hated. If that's true, its because what they are designed to do isn't what the people hating them need done. It indicates a gap between what is available and what is needed; intent may be interesting, but in the end not all that important.