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This thread is straining the bounds of civil discourse. I don't visit this forum often,and when i do, it is only because I am led here by those who think as I do: If you can't make your point in a logical, educated, and, yes, civil manner, keep your thoughts to yourself. There is no need to post pictures/articles of/about children to prove a point about the horrors of armed conflict; we all see it on the news every day. Let's find a more adult way to speak our peace or back off, rethink our method of assault, and carry on in a less threatening manner. Otherwise, I'll close this fucking thread in a heartbeat...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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