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To: Neocon who wrote (141536)	7/26/2004 5:58:00 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (4) of 281500

What interests were we pursuing in Korea or Vietnam that anyone would have considered worth the expenditure in blood and treasure, apart from the strategic goal of containment? Neocon, you're surely not serious. In Vietnam many, many people went and came back with the facts and a real view of the situation. There have been books written on the dereliction of duty of those who knew better but didn't want to sacrifice their careers to tell the truth. The whole war soon became based on lies of "success," inflated "body counts" and "Vietnamezation." Who benefited? How about the officers who sent their men into meat grinders for their own glory and promotions while they sat in the rear moving colored pens on maps. The contractors who enriched themselves at the expense of the taxpayers. Those who used the war as flag-draped forum for political gain. The men who proudly inflated their chests and bragged of the nobility of our young men who died in a futile cause. In short those who benefited were some of the most selfish elements of our society, and some of the most powerful. Ask yourself why so many of the military men who were in charge of that clusterscrew only fessed up decades later to the doubts and reservations that they had at the time. It's because those who benefit from wars are among the most powerful, while those who suffer the costs of war are among the least powerful. If that weren't true there wouldn't have been a Vietnam war," and there wouldn't have been an "Iraqi" war. It's always the same pattern but you won't allow yourself to see it. Maybe you'd see it if you'd paid the cost yourself. "Trust," without cynical skepticism, can be a terrible fault.

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