|
I just got off the phone with a friend in North Dakota near the Canadian border. He said that since early today the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale forces. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in...
__________________
"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
-----------------------------------------
"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"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
|