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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2018

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    This is a crucial point. The American elite knew very early that war was lost but kept USA engagement going till 1975 in order to save face, at the cost of millions of lives. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/977896310543020034 …

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      1. Percolato‏ @Percolato 25 Mar 2018
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        That war was started right before I was born, and ended when I was a pre-teen. I remember neighborhood kids watching the draft lottery @ our house. I had no idea how evil and duplicitous Richard Nixon really was until I watched the Ken Burns ten-part series. I recommend it highly

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      1. Werner Herzog's Bear‏ @jason_tebbe 25 Mar 2018
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        They are more than happy to let others die their mistakes, though.

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      1. ed sanders‏ @e_d_sanders 25 Mar 2018
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        Or, they didn’t know & didn’t care because they are just lying cowards justifying their cowardice after the fact.

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      1. J B X‏ @JimbauxsJournal 25 Mar 2018
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        which reinforces the point that conservatism is much about *assertions of* dominance. It's the same with pregnancy abortion; many of them don't actually want to completely abolish it but want to keep the threat thereof constant.

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      1.  🇺🇦Alfie 🇺🇦‏ @WndlB 25 Mar 2018
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        There was opprobrium in opposing: you were a red, soft on communism, you wanted Ho to win, you were Jane Fonda, should I go on?

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2018

        No, Democrats too. McNamara & LBJ knew war was futile very early.

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      1. Greg Ferguson  🌻‏ @GreggersBFerg 25 Mar 2018
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        "Saving face" on all sides - soft on commies, soft on soft-on-commies - was a fking *disease* of the period. And no escape (no matter how rational & wise). Guns really is our closest enemy now, and they is us w/AR-15s.

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      1. The Hube‏ @TheHube 25 Mar 2018
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        Do you think Iraq or Afghanistan is any different?

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      1. Itza Newday‏ @f800gecko 25 Mar 2018
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        Kind of like GOP continuing to stand for a disaster president.

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