While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces. Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.
We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.
There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.
We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968. . . Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops. . . Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals
We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.
