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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel (reliving Vietnam)
Message-ID: <414@persci.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 20:57:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.414
Posted: Mon Sep 23 20:57:11 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:05:25 EDT
References: <7800427@inmet.UUCP> <851@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
Organization: Summation Inc, Woodinville WA
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In article <851@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>Hey! When I was a little boy in public school, I was taught about how
>our government was helping the Veitnamese with our neato army. This
>teaching, of course, did not begin before we sang at least two slogans...
>>[...]
>I don't remember MY country being called any of those names... are you
>sure the list is complete?
>Charles Forsythe

Yeah. And when I was in college, about the same time, I was taught about
how evil old Uncle Sam was slaughtering millions in the name of Profit$,
and how Viet Nam would become a veritable Garden of Eden once Uncle Sam 
took his nasty playthings home. This gospel, preached by instructors and
"fellow" students alike, was of course mixed with all sorts of slogans 
and songs which you damned well better chant and sing and *BELIEVE*, or
be excommunicated and sentenced to hell.

The reason the USA isn't on the list, Charles, is that it doesn't belong,
no matter how much *you* think it does.
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill