On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 5:18:35 PM UTC-8, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:24:53 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 7:56:50 AM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/12/2019 5:07 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2:51:32 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 3:54:04 PM UTC, jbeattie wrote:
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 4:17:07 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 5:31:24 AM UTC, news18 wrote:

So, effectively, the USA surrendered [in Vietnam].

Oh, it's worse than that. In The Devil's Pleasure Palace, Michael Walsh made the case that the US wanted to lose that war. Other historians and philosophers have made the point that stopping the 20th century's wars, and into this century, too soon just guaranteed that one unfinished war would be the flash-point for the next one. Iraq and Afghanistan are the recent examples commonly cited. Paul Johnson wrote of the deplorable effects of Americans' small-town morality when real politik was required. Walsh fixes the blame for this defeatist inability to conduct wars to their necessary conclusion on the Frankfurt School and its Critical Theory. I've been calling them commiepinkofellowtravellers since the 1960's and their theory the stinking detritus of resentful Germans who didn't know how to behave as guests in someone else's house. The little Antifa fascists are their children, and the modern Democratic Party is driven by Critical Theory's foolish fallacies. Their whole thing
is
cultural Marxism and, like other sorts of Marxism, it is a suicide cult in which limp-dick defeatism pigeonholes nicely into the their huge cupboard full of omnidirectional hate for Western civilisation. You're a representative example of what Critical Theory has done to two generations now.

Well that explains everything! Meanwhile, North Vietnam did not surrender.

-- Jay Beattie.

What's your problem, Jay? I didn't say North Vietnam surrendered.

Just wanted to recap after the winding ride though commie-pinkos, Antifa, Germans who are poor house guests, omni-directional hate for Western civilization, cats and dogs, living together, etc. I think we're all in agreement that North Vietnam didn't surrender. Just trying to establish some common ground in these divisive times.

Such a wonderful group of guys, too:
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM

kumbaya indeed.


--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

The trouble with socialist economies is that you cannot advance. Hence corruption is everywhere and is assumed to be just another part of life. Sort of the same view as the Democrat Party. Only a sucker wouldn't get his share.

What "cannot advance"?

Ho Chi Minh advanced from a kitchen helper to (effectively) King of
Vietnam. Võ Nguyên Giáp went from a school teacher to chief of the
Vietnamese military. Mao Zedong helped on his father's farm and ended
as the chairman of the Chinese communist party. Even Stalin was a
meteorologist at a Tiflis observatory and ended up as the Dictator of
Russia.

Tom, you ought not to talk about things about which you appear to know
nothing.


Cheers,
John B.

You think of that as "advancing" do you? So you're just another of those little socialists that were afraid to come back to this country because you were well aware that here you'd have to try and you knew that you'd fail.