tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post113851828208444718..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: What, That Old War Again?James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1138597504198241042006-01-30T00:05:00.000-05:002006-01-30T00:05:00.000-05:00Joel Stein is a real douchebag; a smarmy, smug lit...Joel Stein is a real douchebag; a smarmy, smug little prick who has managed to turn a life that has consisted of nothing much more than going to college and watching a lot of crappy TV into a career as Generation X's go-to pundit.<BR/><BR/>Last year in the LA Weekly, Nikki Finke described Stein's TV presence thusly: "He’s the wire-rim-wearing, flop-haired smirker who looks amused by what he’s Vitamin Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809659422003652240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1138597446625637352006-01-30T00:04:00.000-05:002006-01-30T00:04:00.000-05:00Since the troll already has a list of pro forma wi...Since the troll already has a list of pro forma winger answers to its questions, they aren't worth responding to, but what the hell, the brandy hasn't kicked in yet.<BR/><BR/><I>1) Name one battle we lost in the Vietnam war?</I><BR/>The one that cost 58,000 American lives and millions of Vietnamese. It was a long one, too, lasting more than twice as long as WWII.<BR/><BR/><I>2) Why did it take Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1138581575204807632006-01-29T19:39:00.000-05:002006-01-29T19:39:00.000-05:00OK Guys, answer a couple of questions.1) Name one ...OK Guys, answer a couple of questions.<BR/><BR/>1) Name one battle we lost in the Vietnam war?<BR/><BR/>2) Why did it take until 1975 for North Vietnam to conquer South Vietnam when the U.S. had pulled its troops in 1973?<BR/><BR/>3) Why are pictures of John Kerry and Jane Fonda hanging in Vietnamese war museums?<BR/><BR/>4) Why do records of the former USSR talk about paying agitators within theGahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1138573991343922902006-01-29T17:33:00.000-05:002006-01-29T17:33:00.000-05:00So on target that the first commenter above just u...So on target that the first commenter above just unintentionally illustrated what the phrase "case in point" means. I gather that neither he/she nor Mr. Stein are old enough to have lived through the time, and learned what little they know of it from repeated screenings of Forrest Gump. What always annoys more than their willful ignorance, is how bloody <I>arrogant</I> they are about being Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1138568941343688932006-01-29T16:09:00.000-05:002006-01-29T16:09:00.000-05:00You don't trust our own generals, who say it had n...You don't trust our own generals, who say it had nothing to do with the peace activists at home? <BR/><BR/>Thanks, Riley. Exactly right. <BR/>I'm not a pacifist by any means, but to me "supporting the troops" means not sending them into wars they can't win, depriving them of what they need to survive easily predictable circumstances, cutting their pay and their medical care after they get home. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1138528928802774942006-01-29T05:02:00.000-05:002006-01-29T05:02:00.000-05:00"in blog comments to the idea that an evil cabal o..."in blog comments to the idea that an evil cabal of smelly hippies and the Librul Media kept us from winning, the astonishing lack of concern with one's own history, the easy dismissal of the war as something as relevant today as bell-bottoms and rotary phones, the sheer self-indulgence of, not just willful ignorance, but gleefully willful ignorance is just jaw-dropping. What Stein seems to "knowGahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.com