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Smeghead 06:32 pm UTC 07/20/09 |
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re: A Voice Of Certainty In An Uncertain World - steven_stuart 04:24 pm UTC 07/20/09 |
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Of course it could have been won... if we were trying to win it. We beat the Axis by dropping a couple of bombs... if we had felt any true danger to the US we would have gone in there and wiped out the enemy. The reason the US has never really fought a war to win it since WWII is because then we haven't faced an enemy as strong as us. In WWII there was a very real chance that the Axis could have ended the existence of the USA so we did whatever was necessary to defeat the enemy... since then we haven't done "whatever it takes".
> > RIP Walter Kronkite, a true american icon.
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> I agree. It was amazing when he went to Vietnam and
> reported back that the war could not be won. This really
> shocked the government. He wasn't some dope smoking hippy
> but a fairly conservative chap who was trusted even by the
> Archie Bunkers of the world. If he said it couldn't be
> won, then it couldn't be won. He was voted the most
> trusted man in America.
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> Another famous moment was when he was the first person to
> break the news that JFK had died. In an interview he said
> he almost "lost it" when he was delivering that very sad
> news.
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