not stuck at all in VietNam protest era
instead, alarmed at the ignorance of a repeated VNam
except this one is an order of magnitude more dangerous
combine crude oil with religious fanatacism
what alarms me is guys like you and your blindness
so now you dismiss my points as VNam redux ???
take a look at parallels
that is, if you can take the time to be objective
similar mistakes are being made
one that pisses me off is the heightened motivation to lose more precious soldier lives so that the previous losses were not in vain
THEY ARE ALL IN VAIN
I BRING UP HISTORICAL COMPARISONS BECAUSE IF HISTORY IS NOT LEARNED, IT IS THEN REPEATED
case in point, credit expansion and subsequent depression
case in point, entering a civil war and subsequent military losss
take a gander at something I have collected and saved
sincerely, jim
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a big big similarity of entering a civil war we don’t understand
use civilians as human shields
enemy has no helicopters, no airplanes, no artillery, no communications
dont bother with uniforms, so we cannot recognize the enemy
many parallels with VietNam, and a few similarities
at least we dont need Agent Orange to clear the desert brush
replace SLOPEHEADS with RAGHEADS
replace HoChiMinh with Saddam
replace Neighbor China with Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf Emirates
replace Communism Halt with Islamic Fundamentalism Halt
replace Monsoons with SandStorms
replace Tet New Year with Ramaddan
replace Buddhist monks with Muslim Mullahs
replace Buddhist immolation sacrifices with Muslim suicide bombers
replace Bonzai with Jihad
replace booby trap deaths with RPG and bomb attack deaths
replace DeMilitarizedZone (DMZ) with Saudi restrictions
replace the Delta with the Gulf
replace Viet Cong infiltrators with Al Qaeda infiltrators
replace Russian/Chinese Suppliers with Russian/Chinese Suppliers
replace Collateral Peasants with Collateral Muslims
replace Combodian Triangle CIA heroin with Afghan CIA heroin
replace sirhans with togas and headdress
replace oxen with camels
same confusion with enemy in uniforms and in civilian clothes
same bullshit managed news reporting on the war
same nonsensical moral high ground claimed
same absurd misjudging of manpower, costs, timetable, greeting by locals
same pushbutton killing with technology
same monstrous 100:1 death counts
same 500,000 soldiers before long
same crippling costs to federal budgets
instead of using chemical weapons (napalm & agent orange), we cannot find chemical weapons
much bigger stakes !!!
add in explosive oil region issues, and religious zealotry
we dont repeat history
we dont learn from history either
history rhymes
same price inflation in a couple years
/ jim |
