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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (130242)4/28/2004 9:45:07 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The North Vietnamese waged a war of attrition that broke our will to fight and led us to find a way to terminate our intervention, even though it left the South in an untenable position. It succeeded in its war aims, we did not. Thus, it prevailed.

My point is that the Japanese had no reason to think that it was hopeless to take on the United States based on pig iron production.

The cabinet and general staff were perfectly aware that the Emperor was a figurehead, and were capable of continuing to fight unless they had been brought to consider, along with him, that the situation was hopeless and dire.

People will not always admit that that a situation is hopeless. That is why the message must sometimes be driven home, as with the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki.

There does not need to be a Hirohito to turn the tide of Palestinian sentiment about tactics like suicide bombings, anymore than there had to be a Hirohito to disillusion the American people with Vietnam.

I worked on the McGovern campaign in 1972, in a local campaign office. I was a registered Democrat until 1988, although I voted for Reagan earlier.

Now, having had enough of your garbage for the week, I hope you will understand if I take a "Bilow break" for awhile.........
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