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back a long time ago, when i was on christmas leave in dallas, my great-aunt and i were wandering around downtown and a panhandler came up to us and asked us for a hand-out. aunt edna said, "come with us and i'll buy you breakfast."
son of a gun, the dude said yes...
aunt edna said that was the best way to diffuse panhandlers - either they were hungry or they weren't...
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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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