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To: epicure who wrote (63779)	5/6/2008 3:30:05 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542243

So following that argument, we become isolationists and let the Chinese Communists and their like do the funding and propping? Maybe we should take a page from their play book after all. Let them get in the mud up to their eyeballs, then allow a determined insurgency to go after them. Do you think that would work?

To: epicure who wrote (63779)	5/6/2008 4:02:15 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 542243

<<<The lesson of Veitnam is (IMO) "Meddle in civil wars, and guerilla wars, with care- they are very hard to win, and even when you can "win" it often requires such ugly measures that winning starts to look like losing.">>> If we had spent XXX amount more and had xxx number of troops more die (not to mention all he Vietnamese casualties) and we had won the war, how would it be different than what it is today? How could we have benefitted? If no one can answer those questions in the affirmative, then what in heaven's sake is the argument all about? Where is there side of the argument?