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Poco Loco

On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:05:42 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:40:03 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/10/14, 9:28 PM, wrote:

You certainly have posted things here that align you far closer with
the Viet Cong than the United States but that is not the analogy I was
making.

The expansion of the original occupation of Palestine is as close to
"Lebensraum" as anything Putin is doing in Crimea.
They have continuously occupied the Crimea since long before the war
of that name.

The "original" occupation of what is now Israel predates the Muslim
religion.

Telling a lie over and over does not make it true. The Europeans who
moved into Palestine since 1948 would have to go back 10 generations
or more to find a single ancestor who lived there before. Some if not
most never had one.

The dirtiest hands in the Vietnam fiasco belong to the French and the
United States, and the hands were dirtied long before our serious,
direct military involvement in that country.

Perhaps but there were certainly plenty of South Vietnamese who did
not want to be ruled by the North.
They wanted closer ties to the west and less influence by the northern
communists.

Was it worth 56000 American lives? Probably not but the Vietnamese
death toll was going to be a huge number either way. The communists
killed more people in Vietnam and Cambodia after we left than died
during the whole 10 years of the war.

That last sentence is worth repeating, "The communists
killed more people in Vietnam and Cambodia after we left than died
during the whole 10 years of the war."

But that matters naught. To the eyes of FOAD, the Communists are the good guys and the Americans are
the bad. Always.