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To: Ilaine who wrote (133199)	8/18/2005 12:17:13 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793648

Re: "..the Vietnam war was unwinnable, because the South Vietnamese were not really fighting the North Vietnamese, and we could not do it for them." Maybe we needed to "train" more of the South Vietnamese? Ed

To: Ilaine who wrote (133199)	8/18/2005 1:52:37 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793648

LOL, win what war. I would say a better analogy of the fighting in Iraq is that of Americans moving west and overwhelming the native populations. There were skermishes. The native population simply did not have the logistics to stand against the tide. The killing and destruction going on in Iraq is at a low level in quite small areas of Iraq. It is deadly and tragic, but has little bearing upon the evolution of freedom in Iraq. The information genie is out of the bottle. And bottle of costs shrinks every day. South Vietnam lost as America logistically abandoned them. Iraq has it's own internal natural resources that meet well those of their local national enemies. But the information genie is out of the bottle. That force may be the ultimate force of evolution.