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Veterans

HassleCat

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1. Lesson of Vietnam

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2015, 09:40 AM

May 2015

Thank you. So many people think the "lesson of Vietnam" was that we could have won, if we had just kept after it and not listened to the pinko protesters, and so on. Of course, we quickly forgot the real lesson, which was that military power can only do so much, and bombing the snot out of some country doesn't make the citizens embrace our version of freedom and democracy.

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