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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

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From: alohacyberian
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:26
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"ThomasT" <mauicop@hawaii-politics.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:31:04 GMT, "alohacyberian"
> <alohacyberian@att.net> wrote:
>>"None of the tragedies that happened after the US withdrawal from Southeast
>>Asia should have come as a surprise. But they did to those of us in the
>>antiwar movement because we had blinded ourselves to any reality.
>>
>>"Will today's current peace protestors eventually feel as foolish as I do? 
>>I
>>think even more so. "
>> ~ Gerald Posner, _Was I That Stupid?_,
>> ~ http://www.accessnorthgeorgia.com/news/newfullstory.asp?ID=69541
>
> Good quote!!  Kinda' refreshing to see Posner admit he was wrong.
> Turns out the "domino's" DID fall.  All of those Russian AK's and
> Chinese burp guns the NVA was running around with didn't come from
> WalMart.  The communists, the Cambodians, Laotians and even Cubans all
> had a finger in the pie.  You can lay the lion's share of the  post-US
> pull-out massacre right at the door's of Fonda, Hayden, the Berrigans,
> Kerry and Ramsey Clark among others.
>
> General Vo Nguyen Giap (paraphrased): "I thought I was going
> to lose the war after the disastrous failure of the Tet Offensive
> so Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War was a godsend.
> Thanks, John, I couldn't have done it without you!
> " http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/10/222651.shtml
>

Touche! Kerry could learn a thing or two from Posner. KM
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