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To: ubetcha who wrote (83355)	3/17/2002 8:09:33 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 117095

<<But one favor I ask: Do not rail against those that did do what they considered their duty. They served their country no matter their personal feelings.>> Sorry, but you have read my posts out of context. Yes, I was critical of the U.S. government, I knew the Vietnam war was a war lots of folks did not want and that many people did not want to be involved in it, and I said that lots of the men sent there were not suited for the task. Of course, one will shoot back if one is shot at. That is self-defense, as we all know. But troops going across the big pond was asking for it and had to endure all that was thrown at them. Elsewhere, I have made the point that it was just too easy for the U.S. government to send its troops into battle to be shot at and/or killed, all in the name of "freedom" and realpolitik, and that lots of innocent folks had to bear the ravages and traumas of war quite needlessly. BTW, there were soldiers and pilots who committed acts of sabotage and/or killed themselves rather than kill their "enemy". My point really was the war was an unfair war and it should not have occurred. It happened because of a morbid fear of Communism which later simply metamorphosed into nothing more than a "paper tiger". BTW, China which was considered a "Yellow Peril" (a term coined by John Foster Douglas who refused to shake the proffered hand of friendship of Chou En Lai back in the early 60s) turned out to be an asset for the U.S. in that it has been helping the U.S. in keeping its inflation low. The USSR colossos would have crumbled sooner had the suggestions (cut the supplies of wheat and loans) of Alexandre Solzhenitsen (spelling?), famed author of "Gulag", for dealing with the USSR, were adopted by the U.S. government. And Howard Ruff (a Mormon investment newsletter owner and editor) bemoaned the fact that loans were still available to the USSR at the height of the Cold War. For sure, morbid fear of the slitty-eyed Yellow Peril was responsible for that.