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The Witness
There was a knock on the door this morning.
I opened it to find a young man standing there who said, "Good morning sir, I'm a Jehovah's Witness."
I said, "Come in and sit down." I offered him coffee and asked, "What do you want to talk about?"
He said, "Beats the shit out of me, I've never gotten this far before..."
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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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