tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post6061815466805971455..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Y'know, Senator, I Think That Was Proven In The Great 'What If Superman Had Fought For The Nazis?' Thought Experiment.James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-40112804414231199062008-05-22T01:27:00.000-04:002008-05-22T01:27:00.000-04:00Grace, your comment reminds me of this:"One of the...Grace, your comment reminds me of this:<BR/><BR/>"One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war. It's been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we're always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. This is never spoken of." --Kurt VonnegutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-78154994169807759122008-05-21T21:21:00.000-04:002008-05-21T21:21:00.000-04:00Hypotheticals applied to history are always fun, i...<I>Hypotheticals applied to history are always fun, if a waste of time....</I><BR/><BR/>Agreed, but what if the US had "won" in Vietnam? What would be different? Kissinger said, <I>Nothing.</I> But obviously the US would have been even much more belligerent and arrogant in its foreign policy. Could you even imagine what Latin America would be like today? Bombed to smithereens probably. Who knowsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-68488284177934878012008-05-21T18:47:00.000-04:002008-05-21T18:47:00.000-04:00Another way that "The very nature of the wars is m...Another way that "The very nature of the wars is markedly different, for better or worse," there's also the fact that, even at the peak of the Vietnam War, US troops could walk around the capitol city unarmed, eat in restaurants, drink in bars, interact with locals, etc. in relative safety. <BR/><BR/>In Baghdad today, any foray outside of a base is basically a combat patrol and even the "safe" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-23274741954613921782008-05-21T16:01:00.000-04:002008-05-21T16:01:00.000-04:00Dangdog, You are so freakin spot-on, I forget to v...Dangdog, You are so freakin spot-on, I forget to visit The Rude Pundit.<BR/><BR/>Indeed I'm trying so very hard to hand over to you the Oscar for Most Noble Use and Manipulation of Our Flexible and Wonderfully Diverse English Language that my telescreen has begun to develop varicose-vein cracks from the repeated pounding. Why won't a sleeping Englishspeakingpublic wake up to this injustice, and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com