05-10-2013, 12:29 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Breathtakingly arrogant NYT article says Giap's "willingness to sustain staggering losses...was large reason [Vietnam] war dragged on"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/world/....html?_r=0
....well it surely [cough, cough] had nothing at all to do with the invasion by foreign troops, more bombs dropped than in all of WW2, Napalm, Agents Green, White and Orange, clusterbombs, phosphorus bombs, assassination programs toward non-combatants as well as combatants, US paying for proxy army in the South, hamlet pacification [kill all living things]...etc.....nah, it was that willingness of Giap to sustain losses....yeah, we never do the wrong thing...can't...we're the Exceptional Nation 'shining' on the 'Hill'....
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