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Originally Posted by aklim
Fair enough IF you spare me the crap of how everyone else walks on water cept us and that we are the scum of the world while everyone is an angel
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Take some deep breaths and abandon ridiculous hyperbole. We are fairly good people drifting astray, IMO.
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Originally Posted by aklim
So then what war isn't a terrorist action, by your definations? What about WWII? What about WWI?
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The actions of those who started those wars could easily be classified as a sort of terrorism. Sometimes war is unavoidable. Nam was eminently avoidable. Read some books about. You didn't live in Nam. Nor did I but at least I've tried to educate myself about it.
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Originally Posted by aklim
You saying that wasn't the intention with the spread of communism?
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If you would STUDY the issue instead of spouting knee jerk patriotic would-be defensivness you might note that the experience with "democratic capitalism" that Vietnam was treated to at the hands of the French was exactly what caused them to choose communism. Our influence after the French didn't help any. No one in the west was willing to be their ally against the French -- the French we love to hate except when we go on about how we had to continue their invaluable project in Vietnam. So they took help from the only source they felt they could deal with: the USSR. The definitely didn't trust China, who tried to take them over after we left.