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Old 05-04-2015, 10:12 PM
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And Ho Chi Minh approached the U.S. for assistance first, before it all went south.

We told him to take a hike.

Hindsight is whatever.
Goddamn Frogs, right?
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Old 05-05-2015, 01:39 AM
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Goddamn Frogs, right?
So we go in and play Super Frog.

And learn nothing.
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Old 05-05-2015, 09:57 AM
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France and the United States thing they are special, always have been.
If you want to know why we lost read Fire In The Lake by Francis Fitzgerald and the strangely prophetic The Quiet American by Graham Green written a decade before we came to Indochina.
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