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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Ilaine who wrote (141847)7/29/2004 11:04:10 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi CB: Right, I was never in Vietnam, I "just" read about(*). Same as you. But, I guess we can allow ourselves a sound assumption that a) Vietnam exists, that b) there was a war (one at least) in there and on it goes.

We do not have to play Hume and question our private, as well as our common, experience (too much...). Otherwise it's a learning Catch-22 - "if you dont know and want to learn, you are forbidden to do so". Or, I could afford to say there never was Auschwitz, because so far I have yet not happen upon a place called like this.

I said "my respect" because the story simply rang true. It's not all of it (see uw). But everything that I have learnt so far - reading of course, like here on the thread;\ - tells me it was not an either/or situation.

dj

(*) Actually I translated too - for our Student newspaper in Ljubljana, what Seymour Hersh reported about My Lai (I already hear the sigh of relief: of course, another Woodstock-y Hair-y 68ish liberal...)
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