Closing Thought–26Nov18
Just a reminder for those that did not fight or have forgotten an armed conflict….we fought a war in Southeast Asia until recently it was America’s longest war….this war consisted of 4 of the nation’s of the region…..Cambodia, Laos, North and South Vietnam…..there were land battles as well as an air war of which over 2 million tons of ordinances were dropped on the region……
That is where we pick up the story of that war……some 40+ years after the end of that war and people are still dying of it……
This year’s Thanksgiving celebration marks 50 years since the American military embarked on the biggest bombing campaign in history, decimating the small Southeast Asian country of Laos by dropping more than two million tonnes of bombs on it at the height of the Vietnam War.
Half a century on, innocent lives are still being lost as the country struggles with the leftovers of the conflict.
On Thanksgiving Day in November 1968, the United States escalated its war against North Vietnam in Laos.
Sadly people are still dying thanx to the bombs that we and our allies dropped 43 years ago……
I sincerely hope that everyone is enjoying the “holiday” season…..and everyone has had something to be thankful for in the last year…..it is time to run down the year for the new year approaches with a bang.
We obviously did not drop enough of them or the right kind of them or in the right places because we lost the war.
Really John? You care so little for life that you would say that? chuq
I could care less about THEIR lives. I am sick of The United States fighting these little unwinnable wars and expending American Lives on militarism and adventurism. We lost more than 10,000 American Lives in that craphole and what did we get out of it? No, I don’t care one little bit abouit THEIR lives.
Nice to see your Christianity shining through…
It was Christianity that saved the world from Islamic domination. Stopped them at the gates of Spain.
Thanx for the history lesson but it was Charles the Hammer in France that stopped them. And the church has been fucking the people ever since. chuq
There is a reason that the Chemistry Industry invented insect spray. It would take no effort at all for the average citizen to welcome all the roaches in the world into their homes but in no time, the roaches would consume everything in sight and would bore through the very foundations of your house and it would crumble to the ground. The Church is not the answer to Man’s problems. Jesus Christ is! There is a natural human being and a spiritual human being. One has nothing to do with the other. Good stewardship of a home demands the use of insect spray from time to time … or some other equally effective measure to maintain what is yours and what you have toiled and labored to build. — Some rats scattered around this world in craphole venues have already cost us thousands of lives and in my opinion there isn’t a single rat that is worth a million American lives — or even one for that matter! Maybe God will change my mind on this someday. In the interim, maybe somebody will invent a better inspect spray and will find the gonads to use it.
Yep and that spray is killing more Americans than bad guys….the church is not an answer to anything…..but if it helps you sleep at night….chuq
Old bombs, taking new lives. No lessons learned, ever.
Best wishes, Pete.
Same with mines…..just the gift that keeps on giving….chuq