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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TimF who wrote (101335)6/12/2003 7:28:31 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Hi twfowler; Re: "And the Vietnamese set themselves on fire as a protest ..."

That's harldly violent, LOL.

The rest of your long post boils down to the same error. You're comparing the first 7 weeks of a guerilla war in Iraq with the last 20 years of a guerilla war in Vietnam. When you notice that the first 7 weeks in Iraq wasn't nearly as bad as, for example, the helicopters leaving Saigon in 1975, you conclude that we're doing just fine, LOL.

If you want to compare apples to apples, you need to compare this situation to the very very very early stages of Vietnam. That is, you need to compare the situations at equivalent maturity.

-- Carl

P.S. Did you read the US documents I linked, or was I wasting my effort? Did you learn anything?
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