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naples, poland, lisbon, china, but no africa, maine anywhere...
hanxter and i have partied in bath and topsham, i've shopped in freeport, eaten fried clams an lobster rolls in wiscasset (red died, by the way), and vacationed in southport island across from boothbay harbor but never ran across a desert in that area...
sorry, i'm done...
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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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