Re: Election Day on the Euphrates - American "imperialism" at work


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>> He would allow the same room for my opinions as, presumably, he takes
>> for his own. He seems to have been that sort of guy.,
>
>
> Indeed, and the late Col. Harry Sullivan


Oops. Probably because Sullivan sounds more Irish than Summers.


> was also that sort of guy:
>
> "Whenever Harry spoke on the Vietnam War at college campuses, he
> inevitably
> drew the usual cast of hecklers and crackpots claiming to be Vietnam
> veterans. At one such event, someone claiming to have served in Vietnam
> stood up and confessed to the standard string of lurid atrocities and
> murders--all the while blaming the evil and immoral U.S. Army for his
> actions. After patiently listening to the tirade, Harry retorted with a
> point-blank sabot round: "Shame on you, you rotten SOB! I didn't do those
> things, and I don't know anyone who did. I didn't need the Army to teach
> me
> right from wrong--my mother taught me that much."
>
> http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/SummersObitText.htm


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