[extropy-chat] Re: Nam

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I'm no military historian, Dirk, yet Hanoi was never
captured; Baghdad was captured in a matter of weeks.
All the protesting Americans- and as you reminded me-
others around the world engaged in during the Vietnam
War, was during an unending jungle war, the enemy
backed by USSR & China. America was not overthrowing
North Vietnam, the US was trying to replicate the
stalemate of Korea 1950-'53 (America was fighting the
last war). You can't compare the opposition to the
Vietnam War to the opposition to the Iraq War today.
The opposition to the Iraq War is tepid, the
opposition to the Vietnam War was not. Two years after
1965, resisters were doing all sorts of creative
things. Here it is two years after the Iraq invasion
and what is happening here? You tell me.  Just as you
want nothing to do with the Iraq War I want nothing
with protesting it.
The Consensus Party is serious and worthy, And so are
you. But with memories of manipulating marxist
masochoid mindprisoners, that is it for me. People can
fight their own mind-wars.

> Well, let me make the point more forcefully.
> The US lost not because of any military defeat but
> because of those 
> "gestures and statements", made not by the
> Vietnamese, or even US 
> tourists in Vietnam but by people in the US and
> around the world.
> 
> The Iraqi resistance knows that the US  does not
> have the will to fight 
> for twelve years, most especially because popular
> support for the war is 
> collapsing. And I make a point of criticising the
> war, and the bogus 
> reasons for it, at every oportunity thereby helping
> that process along.
> 
> -- 
> Dirk
> 
> The Consensus:-
> The political party for the new millenium
> http://www.theconsensus.org
> 
> 
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