[lit-ideas] Re: The Iran Charade
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:36:44 -0500
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> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/19/2006 1:02:37 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Iran Charade
>
> Stan: You think that 500,000 men wasn't enough?
> And that's why we lost?
>
>
> You wrote that the Vietnamese were "a stubborn and
> resilient enemy who refused to lose." No
> pacifists among them obviously. Obviously they
> were united in support of their postcolonial goal.
>
1, What is it that we lost in Vietnam? Or, alternatively phrased, what
would we have gained by "winning" in Vietnam?
2. How much constitutes overwhelming force when the enemy has already lost
3 million and is prepared to die to the last person?
> Now if we were united in ours? Hmmmm.
>
Fair question. If we were united in our purpose, my answer is we would
have obliterated every last man, woman and child in the country. That's
what we would have won. What's your answer?
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