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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (246318)	8/17/2005 12:24:40 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1581938

>apparently public schools in this area teach we were winning in Vietnam whe we withdrew instead of recognizing there is a state between 'winning' and 'losing' called 'stalemate'. We never even made it to Vietnam in any of our history classes... it was in the curriculum, but we always ended up finishing behind schedule. I believed until I was like 19 that we won Vietnam. I just assumed, wrongly, that all wars were existential in nature, and that if we'd lost one, we wouldn't be a country anymore. I also thought that Presidents couldn't be bad people and that elections were about who was most qualified to be President. I didn't know from different ideologies. Boy, have I grown up. 80% of the people I've encountered in my life don't get much beyond the above. -Z