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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (71230)2/24/2011 1:50:54 PM
From: Jacob Snyder2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 217574
 
<Lose a soldier in battle, see an entire Chinese family wiped from existence.>

The lesson of Vietnam, being applied in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that technology makes it possible to substitute machinery and software for bodies. The U.S. middle class hasn't protested against our current overseas adventures, because their sons aren't being drafted, and the $ cost is on the credit card. No pain (for Americans, current generation)......no protest.

History says that, at the height of their power and arrogance, every Empire is required to invade Afghanistan, to begin being humbled. Alexander the Great's camp in Afghanistan, in the winter of 334 B.C., was Bagram. That site is now America's main base in the country. Around 2050 A.D. or so, the Chinese will be there, bringing freedom and democracy to the Afghans (as China defines those terms).
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