This Memorable Day

[Tyler Durden]

"2. Vietnam we lost by kicking their asses so badly that our campuses
"revolted", at the behest of a bunch of marxists. Whereupon we packed
up, partied for about 15 years, and killed their communist sugar
daddies in Moscow with just the *possibility* we could invent
something strategic missile defense, they couldn't copy fast enough."

Are you trollin' m'friend, or have you been smokin' James Donald's ground up 
toenails?

-TD

Mao accused the US of being a "paper tiger", and there may be some truth to 
that.


>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>To: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>, cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
>Subject: Re: This Memorable Day
>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:05:19 -0500
>
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>At 7:33 AM -0800 11/3/04, John Young wrote:
> >The US has not won since WW2.
>
>Nope. Not at all.
>
>1. Korea we lost by shoving the commies all the way up to the Yalu
>river. And then leaving them to fester behind a still-extant DMZ
>until they're almost enough of a "nuisance", to lots of people,
>including the now-almost-former-communist Chinese to worry over.
>
>2. Vietnam we lost by kicking their asses so badly that our campuses
>"revolted", at the behest of a bunch of marxists. Whereupon we packed
>up, partied for about 15 years, and killed their communist sugar
>daddies in Moscow with just the *possibility* we could invent
>something strategic missile defense, they couldn't copy fast enough.
>
>The Cold War we lost by... Wait a minute. We didn't lose. See 1., and
>2., above.
>
>That leaves us, what, John? Grenada? Panama? Hell, Columbia? Oh.
>Right. Lebanon. Tell ya what. Let's start the clock on this war at,
>say, the assasination of Bobby Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan, include the
>Beiruit truck bombing by reference as a battle, and see how we stand
>in a decade or so, shall we?
>
>C'mon, John. Think faster, or something.
>
>Cheers,
>RAH
>
>
>
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>experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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