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Originally Posted by Rodney
Mmmm, well, history is a fluid thing. It's sometimes what the winners say, or the leaders of the winners say. I'm not specifically endorsing this article, a commentary from the LA Times, but it shows a different point of view -- that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were _not_ necessary.
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and pearl harbor was a figment of our imagination? where the hell do these people come from? not necessary, my achin' ass...
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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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