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bucolic_frolic

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1. That is quite a Quote for the Day

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Sun May 5, 2024, 01:38 PM

May 2024

"To win the glory of completing the New Deal, he refused to trim back his Great Society to pay for a war he imagined to be an extension of the New Deal abroad."

The Vietnam War was an extension of the New Deal?

Republicans thought the New Deal was pinko commie socialism!

The Vietnam War was fighting pinko commie socialism in Vietnam, domino theory notwithstanding.

So we were fighting pinko commie socialism with pinko commie socialism?

I guess the only thing worse than our pinko commie socialism was somebody else's pinko commie socialism, that they owned instead of us. Or that author is nuts.

Soldiers will tell you we fought for the oil. Were we supporting the oil rich nations in SE Asia. You know, our allies because we supported them and they sold us oil.

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That is quite a Quote for the Day bucolic_frolic May 2024 #1

Gitlin was far from "nuts." Tansy_Gold May 2024 #2

Agree, compartmentalization is a missing link bucolic_frolic May 2024 #3