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Originally Posted by cmac2012
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If you can't see it by now, no way am I going to be able to walk you through it.
BTW, I accept the fact that Coulter is a woman, if a skinny one with a noticeable adam's apple. One thing that caught my eye /ear early on was when she went on about the 'girly men' who couldn't get the job done in Vietnam. The woman looks like she couldn't fend off a female high school volleyball player and yet she has the gall to go on about men who realized at some point that there was no victory to be had in Vietnam, that those who thought there was were operating, like Coulter, under some fanatical self assurance about exactly how things work in all parts of the world.
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I had lunch with a guy just today who was, when he retired, very high up in the Marines. This guy is 76 and looks like he could whip you with one hand tied behind his back.
He said he can remember the precise moment when he understood there was no way the US was going to prevail in Viet-Nam. He would not go into the details, but he said it was in the middle of a fight.
This guy is also a rock ribbed Conservative in his political views and reminds me a lot of Eisenhower in his thinking. He also lives in the real world and his opinions of Dick Cheney are not fit for family viewing.
He said he learned to live with the ignorant thoughts of those who were not there and therefore could never hope to understand what the situation really was, but the thing that bothers him about them is that they should be able to pick up a book and read some history written by those why were there and not just pretend to know what they are talking about. He does not feel anger towards people like Coulter; he only feels pity.
I told him I still thought Coulter was a joke and that there was big money in playing to the fantasy lives of people who thought they were smarter than everyone else. He said that could be. All he knew was he went to war and to this day cannot figure out why.
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