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F.O.A.D.

On 2/17/13 5:30 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:09:10 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

I guess if losing 400,000 troops is a "win"....

We are not speaking German or Japanese.
it was a win.

The Vietnamese never threatened the US but if the spread of economic
freedom was our goal, we won. Have you turned a piece of wood
furniture over lately? It usually says made in Vietnam. They are even
cutting into the Chinese manufacturing base.
We certainly made IndoChina safe for the sale of Marlboro and
Budweiser

There's not much "economic freedom" in either Vietnam or China. What has
happened is that one form of economic exploitation of workers has been
exchanged for another. A relatively few people in both countries are
doing well, and the rest are working for near slavery wages. They got to
where this country is headed before we did, that's all.

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I'm a *Liberal* because I knew the militant christian fundamentalist
racist militaristic xenophobic corporate oligarchy wasn't going to work
for me.