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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (8801)2/16/2003 8:41:46 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
I don't see him as an island. Nor do I see him as inhabiting a sea of deceit - except when he visits the UN.



To: Mao II who wrote (8801)2/19/2003 6:32:40 AM
From: Mao II  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
Powell describes his Vietnam efforts in "My American Journey?:
"We burned down the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters. ... Why were we torching houses and destroying crops? Ho Chi Minh had said the people were like the sea in which his guerrillas swam. ... We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference did it make if you shot your enemy or starved him to death?"


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