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Saturday, June 25, 2011

A misleading start

One of the most helpful phrases I learned in philosophy class is:

"If you start with a false premise, you can only come out with a false conclusion." One may argue that Vietnam was a mixed bag, that is: we went in with good intentions and messed up the operation, or we went in with bad causes and we still messed up the opportunity. One might attempt a feeble just war defense of the Vietnam War.

The United States President of the time, Richard Nixon, famously a paranoid man, created for the United States a conflict untenable which gladly resulted in retreat / surrender. Because of the unrighteous start it was impossible to win.

May we not repeat with the same mistakes being repeated.

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