Andy Cowley wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

Walt Davidson wrote:

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:41:44 GMT, Dave Heil
wrote:

America pulls Britain's fat from the fire in WWI. America pulls
Britain's fat from the fire in WWII.


Pity nobody pulled your fat from the fire in Vietnam, OM.


Did you find anything untruthful in my statements above? There was
certainly no Britain assisting us in Vietnam. Nobody defeated the
United States militarily in Vietnam.

Huh? They filmed all that US embassy stuff in Nevada did they?

Not any more than the Dunkirk footage was filmed at Weymouth.

All the body bags were full of marijuana, no one was killed?

Have you ever heard of a war where no one was killed? Have you ever
participated in a war?

In ten years time when the last Americans leave the smoking
ruins of Iraq to the gentle care of the Mullahs, that won't
be a defeat either.

Your stuff reads as if you've smoked the marijuana in the body bags.

It never ceases to amaze me how dumb Americans really are.

Yep, the place is a shambles and our citizens are real idiots. It isn't
at all like your little Garden of Eden.

If Great Britain could not wrest control of those islands from
Argentina, it should have held a going out of business sale.


If America "could not wrest control of" Vietnam from a bunch
of guys in black pyjamas "it should have held a going out of
business sale" ?

You must not know much about the history of that war or you could not
come to the conclusion that America was defeated militarily.

Look forward to the post Iraq closing down sale.

Is that something you'd look forward to?

2144 Americans have died to make Haliburton richer.

Is that what you believe?

It never ceases to amaze me how dumb Americans really are.

I accept that as your view, but perhaps your world likely extends only a
few square miles.

vy 73

and vy 73 to you too, Andrew.

Andy, M1EBV

None of your comments address the lack of need for a history of the
United States, do they?

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:

Andy Cowley wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:

If Great Britain could not wrest control of those islands from
Argentina, it should have held a going out of business sale.


If America "could not wrest control of" Vietnam from a bunch
of guys in black pyjamas "it should have held a going out of
business sale" ?


You must not know much about the history of that war or you could not
come to the conclusion that America was defeated militarily.


Could you point out where I or you restricted this to 'militarily'?
I don't think the NVA won because they had prettier cheerleaders,
did they?

America left Vietnam under fire. They have not yet returned. What
kind of defeat was it?

Andy

In message , Andy Cowley
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Dave Heil wrote:

Andy Cowley wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:

If Great Britain could not wrest control of those islands from
Argentina, it should have held a going out of business sale.


If America "could not wrest control of" Vietnam from a bunch
of guys in black pyjamas "it should have held a going out of
business sale" ?
You must not know much about the history of that war or you could
not come to the conclusion that America was defeated militarily.

The army which retires first from the battlefield is generally
considered to have lost.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

The army which retires first from the battlefield is generally
considered to have lost.
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True! But in those days the Americans were frightened of World
opinion. They could have dropped a hydrogen bomb on Hanoi - but
they didn't.

These days it depends only on what is in American interests. Sod the
rest of the world.
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