On 24/02/2011 22:48, David Looser wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in
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The real lesson of the Vietnam war is that a conscript
army composed of people who do not wish to fight and have
no personal interest in the outcome of the war struggles
to defeat an army of people defending their homeland
against a foreign invader, even if far better supplied
and equipped.
Ironic that we didn't take that to heart when we freed ourself from a
tyrant named George by exactly that means.

Yes, isn't it?

Though I question your use of "we". Judging by your name I doubt that your
ancestors were any part of freeing anyone from a" tyrant named George".

Another point you've missed: the Americans who "freed themselves from a
tyrant named George" were every bit as much foreign invaders as the forces
they defeated, the native Americans never got their country back.

Oh, and George wasn't a tyrant, he was a constitutional monarch. Absolute
monarchy had ended with the English Civil war.

ITYM the Glorious Revolution.

--
Eiron.