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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (4158)	4/16/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: nuke44	Respond to of 17770

"Fragging" in Viet-Nam was far less common than popular myth made it. No more so than any other war and probably less than most. We weren't pissed off at our superiors so much as were pissed off at a bureaucracy that handcuffed us, limiting our ability to strike our enemy and accomplish the job we were sent 10,000 miles from home to do, leaving us criminally vulnerable to that enemy in the process. If anything, our superiors were more pissed off than we were. The popularity or lack thereof of the war had little effect on us while we were in country, but it sure made a difference in how we were treated once we came home. Don't expect Clinton to have a clue about any of that though. As far as Clinton and Balaam's ass, I'm not sure just how applicable that is in this particular case, but Clinton and Balaam do appear to have a lot in common. In an essay on Agnosticism, Aldous Huxley described Balaam as, "The classic case of the worldly prophet. He was so overcome by worldliness that his values reflected not the righteousness of God, but the corruption of the lusts of the flesh." Being an atheist, I'm not too convinced about the "righteousness of God" myself, but Huxlely seems to captured Clinton's essence in his description. However, Clinton's faults do not negate or pardon Milosevic's crimes.