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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: our neighbors
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Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 01:49:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 25 01:49:11 1985
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> The War of 1812 is the best example.
> > Yet Walter Cronkite et. al. go on saying that "The United States never lost
> > a war until Vietnam."  
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> [Me]
> Perhaps Walter et. al. go on saying it because it is true.  Not winning
> is not the same as losing.  We (the U. S.) didn't really win in Korea
> either.
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It just hit me that someone is bound to leap on my mention of the
U. S. and the Korean War as another example of American arrogance
and ignorance.  "Doesn't that yahoo know that Korea was a United
Nations effort, and not just an American one?"  Yes, I know, but
we were talking only about whether the U. S. had lost a war.
	Funny that Australians, New Zelanders, South Koreans,
and Filipinos don't complain too loudly when VIETNAM is called an
American war!
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan