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Originally Posted by roachboy
meeting folk from socialisme ou barbarie had a huge impact on me. it's hard to explain. particularly the lunch during which one of the comrades turned to me and said "you have to be careful with revolutionary politics. you have to remember that you also have to live in this world."
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would that a lot of us could have been afforded that advice...
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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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