🚀 go-pugleaf

TenthStone wrote:

> "Willy" <wan...@rogers.wave.ca> caused this to appear in our collective minds on Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:14:09 -0500:
>
> >Jeffrey T. Jhee wrote in message <34E0A7D5...@nwu.edu>...
> >>
> >>Also, if you are a soldier, related to a soldier, or have any relatives
> >>or friends involved with this, I'm sure you would care.
> >>
> >
> >
> >True, hurry and sign them up for a large life insurance policy and then send
> >them out to battle. Besides, it is the American way, War is good economics.
> >
> >They want to do it again, after all Desert Storm was the first "war" the
> >Americans won since 1865.
>
> I don't quite understand this... True, the country did not win Viet Nam in any
> sense of the word (unless delaying a near-inevitable counts as victory)
> but it would seem that your typical anti-American prejudice is showing again,
> Willy.  Quite frankly, America and Russia together won World War II -- with
> some small degree of aid from the British.  America outright won Korea --
> unless you consider the remnant tension a sign of defeat, which would
> mean no war on the face of the planet was ever truly won -- and World
> War I could not have been ended as quickly without aid from the United
> States.

ahem....
actually by the time the US got involved in the Great War Germany was already collapsing economically.....