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when i was young, my grandfather used to tell me we were going to hell in a handbasket...(he was a world war I veteran who had lost his left leg at chateau thierry, and i hope i spelled that correctly)...just before i went to viet nam, he told me to beware of politicians and their ties with industrialists...he died the day i came back from viet nam, after he had heard i was "home..."
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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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