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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Those who are passionate about the right to own the means of destruction will talk of the right of self defence
Those of us who look in from the outside will wonder how a country that enshrines freedom more than any other finds it acceptable that it is a usual situation for a parking ticket to be issued at gun point.
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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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