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hansolsen

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Wed Sep-22-04 03:52 PM
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24. You make exactly the same argument that was made for staying in

Vietnam long after it was clear the only way to win that war was to nuke the place. About a million people died in the second half of that war when it was all about old men in high places not wanting to admit their mistakes and orrying that the world would "snicker" at them.

Well we left eventually anyway, the world did "snicker", the old men fell into disrepute, and the world went on. Democracy survived, America prospered, and the Vietnamese people got to decide their own fate.a All in all not as bad an outcome as was feared in 1968.

Today is 1968 in Iraq.

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