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Southern Thinking - Mississippi
The young man from Mississippi came running into
the store and said to his buddy,
"Bubba, somebody just stole your pickup truck
from the parking lot!"
Bubba replied, "Did you see who it was?"
The young man answered,
"I couldn't tell, but I got the license number."
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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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