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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (91348)	4/8/2003 11:56:26 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Sarmad, I am not here to defend the actions of the Johnson Administration 35 years ago. [My own feeling was that we never should have been involved. It goes to some mistakes after the war (WW2) when the 'old china hands' were dismissed by the state dept and everything was viewed by the prism of the cold-war. But having said that, herbicide and genocide are somewhat different - and has any Arab dictatorship tried a member of its military for killing civilians (think Mai Lai)? As an aside in 1968 I was living on a USAF base and watched TV and saw the airlift of hundreds of wounded per week. The local Army hospital used our base for this purpose and had a ward with hundreds of amputees - Vietnam was all to real in my childhood] If we go back far enough all of us have blood on our hands. The British and French colonized - with slaves. Among others some arabs sold them the slaves. The new world's nations killed their indigent populations. Protestants killed Catholics (and vice versa). Islamic expansion killed Christians, Crusaders killed Moslems etc etc I was thinking the Icelandic population was innocent until I was reminded they were Vikings once :-) John