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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Their job is to kill people.
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 00:20:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 00:20:17 1985
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China has the largest number of people employed in the killing business;
i.e. it has the largest armed forces in the world.  The Soviet Union is
a close second, and the U.S. is a not-so-close third.  These three
countries are commonly considered the three greatest military powers in the
world.

Now the $64,000 question:  What country is number four?  The answer:
Vietnam.  Yes, that backwards, agrarian country has the fourth-largest army
in the world, 1.2 million strong.  The helpless, peaceful country which we
ruthlessly overran fifteen years ago is now chasing the superpowers on the
charts...

Notice that three of these top four have something else in common.  It
really makes me see Red...
-- 
			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"The eerily accurate drawing of Goetz showed the face of the 'before'
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