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To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (45215)	9/12/2001 1:03:57 AM
From: Nick Kline	Respond to of 64865

We also lost Vietnam because we supported dictatorial regimes that at best had little support from the common people; we also were out strategized by the other side, and our tactics were not suited to the war. I think there was no way to win, but that's another argument. We didn't lose because people questioned Mai Lai and other massacres. We didn't lose because some people hated the war and some loved it - life is always more complex than that. In regards to other posters, like the apparently rabid Cheryl: Do we want to go back to the days of the activist CIA, where we supported lots of wonderful dictators in South America that ravaged their own people? I don't think so. We should find the people that did this, and destroy them. But that doesn't mean pick on people who talk funny, look funny, practice a funny religion. It's amazing, just like picking on Japanese people in WW2. This kind of problem is everyone's problem, not just a particular president's. Remember it was bush #1 who decided not to go to Baghdad (there were good and bad reasons for this I guess). He didn't do anything to purposely help terrorists of course. Same with Clinton; he also knew of Bin Laden's actions the first time we blew up the WTC. Democracies don't just go kill people when they get irriated. This doesn't mean we are helpless, powerless. Ah well, I run on. I'm sure you'll disagree with me and accuse me of being unamerican. This is the first time in my life that the world changed in a day. I'll always remember what I was doing this day when I heard about what happened. -nick, a sad American citizen