Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: "Invitations?": Vietnam, Afghanistan: Reply to D Rubin Message-ID: <305@talcott.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:28:24 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.305 Posted: Fri Mar 1 14:28:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:16:11 EST References: <331@usl.UUCP> <558@fisher.UUCP> <499@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 14 > To claim that the U.S. was "invited" into Vietnam is a distortion of > history as great as claiming Russia was "invited" into Afghanistan. > Both involvements represent the imposition of control over people > who didn't want it. > tim sevener whuxl!orb I conjecture that it is the case that in every industrialized nation in the world, the Vietnam War got more press last year than did the war in Afghanistan. A remarkable state of affairs, isn't it? --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.