heart full of
lorentzen-nicklaus
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Thu Sep 27 04:11:30 CDT 2001
offlist should strictly remain offlist!!
not just because of moral reasons; no one knows whether you've invented that
private posting ...
so, to keep the paranoia in bearable borders: do not post offlist stuff here!
kfl
Paddy O' schrieb:
>
> A p-lister wrote privately:
> > > Surely our boys have already brought together the
> > best
> > > things about Vietnam and the Gulf War
> >
> > Shudder....
> > > and come up with
> > > something that should really work on the Afghan
> > > scenery: "remote napalm". If that glorious
> > > substance
> > > did the trick on a seven-digit number of East
> > > Asian
> > > terrorists 30 years ago, it can no doubt do the
> > > same
> > > on at least the same amount of Middle Asian
> > > terrorists.
> >
> > East Asian terrorists? The people you invaded, whose
> > country you laid waste with napalm and other
> > anti-civilian
> > weapons?
> >
> > Anway, I don't imagine napalm would be as effective
> > on the
> > rocks of the Hindu Kush as on the jungles of
> > Vietnam. You'll
> > have to send in ground troops, which history shows
> > you're no
> > goddamn good at.
> >
> > Freak.
>
> Generally ignoring this foreign and, in both tone and
> content, defeatism-creating message, I feel forced to
> make it public and comment on the bit about Hindu Kush
> and Vietnam.
>
> Just recall: "the wind, the wind's everywhere" (GR 30)
> and while there may be pockets in any aether (GR
> 695-697) - in this case it'll be a quite "burning"
> aether indeed, won't it, as it reaches the rocky
> Afghanistan with her 17+ million enemies (conciderably
> less enemies than there were in Nam) - the pockets are
> at best utterly accidental and rare, as we can happily
> conclude from the very passage.
>
> GO
>
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