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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5341)	9/26/2001 2:41:39 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27706

Can't recall much detail, but a google search using - "dien bien phu" waffen - turns up these urls - pub3.ezboard.com uwm.edu ... and a great number of others ... to single out those in german one would need to use "waffen ss" as waffen alone means simply 'arms' .... neither of the two above mentions the fact that many, if not most, of the Waffen SS there had been french in the Vichy units of the SS, and not ethnic germans Ho Chi Minh had written Truman a letter in '45 or '46 in which he quoted Jefferson, or the US constitution, i forget which, he was pleading for US support in encouraging the french to forget trying to retake Indochina ... he wasn't much of a 'communist' at the time, just a wily crook with an astute judgment of the mood of the vietnamese who would never again accept being colonised by a foreign power ..... Truman ignored it, let the french lobbyists win out in the halls of Washington power .... the letter is on view on the Library of Congress site Viet Nam is in most ways not usefully comparable to the current situation with Afghanistan, imho ... in the case of the latter, the Why? question has a clear and present answer No, i am given to understand that humans of other nationalities bleed as well ... and, ¡surprise! - the same colour

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5341)	9/26/2001 2:47:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27706

Refugee crisis will dwarf Kosovo See thisislondon.com for details. It appears the Taliban has it within its power to stop this needless suffering now by simply renouncing terrorism. Will they do this? Do they care about the Afghani people they purportedly govern?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5341)	9/26/2001 5:18:16 PM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27706

We Americans are sensitive to our citizens being killed as we should, but no one has mentioned Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or Dresden. Is it that Americans are the only ones that bleed? In other words... The United States deserved what happened on 9/11/01. By the way... I have heard Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden mentioned frequently here and on the news over the last few weeks along with Pearl Harbor, the Native Americans, the Brittish/American colonies war, Iraq, Viet Nam. and so on and so on.