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Old 01-28-11, 01:02 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat View Post
When you read it from the British point of view, there are many parallels to the American experience in Vietnam.
As there actually are. Wellington refused to take command of British forces in America in 1814, and some of the reasons he gave were ones we should have listened to in 1962.
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