tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post5173296742117881600..comments2008-07-23T18:35:10.969-04:00Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-16804041310211363892008-07-23T18:35:00.000-04:002008-07-23T18:35:00.000-04:00It's positively eerie how similar this was to where we are now. And if you substituted different countries for those mentioned in Samuel Clemens' essay it could have been written today. The U.S. never learns from the past.Mauigirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15529827915262851910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-26342081165493976492008-07-20T19:43:00.000-04:002008-07-20T19:43:00.000-04:00How right you are, sir.Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16354486841414802245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-540502495937336432008-07-18T17:01:00.000-04:002008-07-18T17:01:00.000-04:00we will be repelled once again! The underhanded reasons for us going to war always comes back on us and it will this time too. Seems like today the media as complicit to the war mongering. I am so sick of the underhanded crap. We the people and our good intentions I trust but I no longer trust the Governments reasons for war or misuse of our good intentions to follow their selfish course!an average patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-39991622500223452162008-07-18T01:55:00.000-04:002008-07-18T01:55:00.000-04:00And the Iraqi insurgency, just like the Filipino insurgency, will take it's toll on us and lead to the same conclusion: Our withdrawal. Native insurgencies will never be squelched with brute force. For every one we kill, we create 10-12 new ones. Will we never learn?<BR/><BR/>Good post BTW.Brother Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08603553502416272941noreply@blogger.com