Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (23105)	3/27/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Dear Gerald: The great irony of all this is that Battling Bill is sending our planes (and you can bet our ground forces in the future) into harms way in a similar environment that he found so repulsive when some 30 yrs. ago he decided that he loathed the military and dodged the draft. In Viet Nam it was the same rhetoric: the Viet Minh and Viet Cong were terrorizing the South Vietnamese (really a civil war) but supported at the outset by N. Viet Nam and S. Viet Nam was a signer of the SEATO pact. The US therefore thought they were obligated to help the duly constituted government and treaty ally S. Viet nam. The biggest difference here is that Bill isn't going to be shot at as C in C. As one who was all too often shot at in the "crazy Asian war", I find myself nearly retching every time Bill C. puts on his "war" face and appears on my TV screen speaking as C in C. If they shoot a plane down are they going to send troops in for the pilot if he gets out and makes it to the ground alive? Hopefully they will but it will take folks on the ground to do it. I am not unconvinced that one of the influences propelling the Clinton Admin. to beligerence is to make them look patriotic distracting the public from the distinct lack of patriotism displayed in the now forgotten China affair. "He scoffs at blood who never felt a wound"- This whole thing is very disturbing and it could get out of hand with this draft dodging bozo at the helm. John Dowd

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (23105)	3/27/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>Invasion? I hope not. >>What else do you call it when one country bombs another? I give up, a bombing attack? D-Day was an invasion, the years of bombing before that didn't get that title, to my knowledge. Yugoslavia has been, and no doubt will continue to be, a mess. It's more like an African country than a European one, an arbitrary remnant of the Austro-Hungarian empire that never made sense as a country. Tribal warfare, basically. But it is in Europe, nestled in NATO territory. Of course, I could agree that whether the U.S. should be in NATO is arguable at this point, but that's another topic. If you want to talk about Clinton with a K, I can direct you to another forum, I'm trying to put that one behind me. Cheers, Dan.