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Article #674Re: ANDY ROONEY
From: Jon Flamming
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 05:07
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 05:07
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In <iZIec.9092$2H4.6560@clgrps12> Oliver Wendell Jones wrote: > > Rooney's article missed the mark. Of course a war correspondant > couldn't ask "do you think we're achieving our goals or should we > pull out?" now like they used to in WW2, because in WW2 almost > everybody was onboard against the 'evil nazi menace'. It would have > been unthinkable to even suggest retreat no matter how steep the > casualties. This is why Rooney's analogy is useless, and more than a > little disingenuous. That whole patriotic anti-nazi sentiment from > WW2 was shifted right into anti-communist sentiment, fairly well > played domestic strategy, in fact. So, all you mentioned was that Rooney, and those of his generation, knew the difference between a just and unjust war. Try again?
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