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Hepburn

(21,054 posts) Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:30 PM Sep 2013

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Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq...

...apparently the U.S. has not learned from its past fuck ups.

Syria??? GMAFB!

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Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq... (Original Post) Hepburn Sep 2013 OP

Why do you think we're considering a strike on Syria, then? TwilightGardener Sep 2013 #1

Good questions n/t JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #2

I say both of those terms apply equally. Hepburn Sep 2013 #3

Interesting. Were they ever good or smart people, at one time? TwilightGardener Sep 2013 #5

We learned from VN for a little while pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #4

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

1. Why do you think we're considering a strike on Syria, then?

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:35 PM

Sep 2013

Consider that some of Obama's cabinet have actually served in one of those wars. Are they all just fools, or are they evil?

JustAnotherGen

(31,798 posts)

2. Good questions n/t

Reply to TwilightGardener (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:48 PM

Sep 2013

Hepburn

(21,054 posts)

3. I say both of those terms apply equally.

Reply to TwilightGardener (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:28 PM

Sep 2013

When will we learn: WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

5. Interesting. Were they ever good or smart people, at one time?

Reply to Hepburn (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 11:12 PM

Sep 2013

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

4. We learned from VN for a little while

Reply to Hepburn (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:32 PM

Sep 2013

Just long enough to make it impossible for them to send us on invasions into Central America.

After that, it was total amnesia. But at least we got that much.

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