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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
I'm being a little offbeat by quoting myself, but I should clarify that I pulled the Japanese surrender date off the document itself. V-J Day is tomorrow.
Also, here's a little gem I dug up. I'm not going to the trouble of posting a link unless the volume of discussion in this thread increases, and someone claims it's not true.
Doesn't sound much like they were in the mood to surrender. Especially when Hirohito had to override his generals in order to do so.
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/me would love to see the original article from which that second quote came...
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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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