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vilified wall-hugger...
(when i was in sixth grade, if we misbehaved or otherwise got into trouble, we were made to stand facing the rear wall of the classroom and hold two or three of the heaviest books in our desk over our heads - made a man outta ya...)
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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.
Last edited by uncle phil; 08-21-2010 at 12:47 PM..
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