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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (623)	9/8/2002 3:12:43 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

The US lost the Viet Nam war by deciding to enter it. ... now think about that before you start typing, please .... nothing you say here addresses the nub of the issue, which is that - The US should never have tried to colonise the vietnamese. ... punto ... it's that simple ... and not only the US, but the french, the japanese, the han chinese before them .... it's just not an endeavour with an attractive cost/benefit ratio to it, look at it that way Ho was no angel, no ... neither were Diem Pinochet Somoza shah Pahlavi Batista or a hundred others of their class ... so what are we to learn from the difference in US treatment of them - that accommodating the mob will get you support in the halls of power? .... uh-huh, that registered years ago ... but there goes the 'no angel' casus belli, doesn't it 'Grandmas and kids throw grenades.' ... ah ... what does this tell you about local attitudes to armed invaders ..... could be a hint ... ya think? Geez EC <slap!> ... you cannot justify US occupation of the vietnamese on any grounds ... it was wrong at the start, it was wrong every day in the course of the occupation, just as the french had been wrong before them, and none of it can ever be made retroactively right