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Tansy_Gold

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3. I wanted something in (dis)honor of the passing of the great war criminal

Reply to DemReadingDU (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 1, 2023, 04:25 PM

Dec 2023

It took me almost two hours to find the damn book, tucked behind a row of others on a rarely-visited book case. But I knew it was around here somewhere.

My thought on choosing it for the source of the quote was: Many of those who went, including members of my own (extended) family, did so out of a sense of duty and sincere belief that what they were doing was for a good cause, only to end up betrayed and/or disillusioned . . . or dead. None of it had to be that way, but it was made that way by people like Kissinger. Vietnam and the whole of southeast Asia wasn't the only place/time they did it, either. Perhaps my next choice should be from Keynes' 1919 "The Economic Consequences of the Peace."

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STOCK MARKET WATCH: Friday, 1 December 2023 [View all] Tansy_Gold Nov 2023 OP

Dec 1 and the experts are beginning to make noise for 2024 bucolic_frolic Nov 2023 #1

Vietnam war DemReadingDU Dec 2023 #2

I wanted something in (dis)honor of the passing of the great war criminal Tansy_Gold Dec 2023 #3

When I think of Kissinger I think of Chile and Salvador Allende and Pinochet progree Dec 2023 #4