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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: I think he genuinely doesn't understand
Date: 03/20/26 9:48 PM
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“They don’t have a navy. They don’t have an air force. They don’t have any equipment,” Trump continued.

Neither did the VC. I remember the news reporting that, while the VC could drop Katyusha rockets in downtown Saigon, at the start of US involvement in the war, by the time of the peace treaty, after some ten years of fighting, they could only drop rockets in the suburbs of Saigon.

General Westmoreland said "light at the end of the tunnel", on November 21, 1967, echoing the words of a French General, wrt Indochina, in 1953. Three months later, the Tet Offensive showed the VC and NVA were not even slightly dead.

Kissenger said "peace is at hand" just before the 1972 election. The treaty was not signed until January 1973.

Ever notice how mountainous Iran is, especially near the Gulf of Oman, just east of the Strait? Remember how successful the US was in prying the Taliban out of the mountains of Afghanistan?

What the USian media is not telling us. Apparently, Israeli civilians don't like running for a bomb shelter, multiple times a day.

Netanyahu struggles to maintain control as Israelis protest in Tel Aviv over Iran war

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv, chanting for an immediate end to the ongoing war with Iran and de-escalation with Hezbollah, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a note of reserved optimism about restoring some sense of normal life amid the conflict.


msn.com - Netanyahu struggles to maintain control as israelis protest in tel aviv over iran war

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