Also the cold war is over. There is no Communist China or USSR next door exporting arms. The domino theory tumbled into the dustbin of history. etc.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Futurework] I forgot: We're also still spending almost US$1 billion per month in Afghanistan I think I was wrong. The big difference between Afghanistan and Vietnam may only be that we back here in "The States" don't *see* the devolution occurring in Afghanistan like we saw it happening in Vietnam. Vietnam was news; Afghanistan is non-news. Of course there are other differences, like there is apparently no exact high-profile equivalent of the Viet Minh (Vietcong, etc.) in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a much more prinitive place than Vietnam -- sort of maybe how a doctor must feel fighting some kind of barely living pathogen as opposed to a highly evolved one. And we are not [so far...] taking casualties in any significant numbers in Afghanistan.... Another morning the sun rises in the east on its way to setting in the west unless something very bad happens in the meantime, and still, the voices of all freedom loving people ask: "Mr. Bush, where is Osama?" http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/TalibanLullabye.html \brad mccormick -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
