Posted on 01/13/2019 3:02:30 AM PST by blueplum
LBJ was not willing to divorce himself completely from the anti-communist legacy which JFK left for him. Nor did he expect it to be such a long and costly war. I think he would have genuinely preferred a Korea type solution which lasted only three years.
According to them, the only thing holding back African countries is Colonialism and Racism.
Therefore, when Black African leaders repeatedly fail, and drive their countries into pre-colonial poverty and violence, it *must* be caused by colonialism and racism.
So they just keep on doing the same stupid things, over and over.
I remember when his plane crashed. never knew about a survivor. He was on postage stamp not log after.
It was only later that I had to figure out on my own, that the UN itself, was among the WORST tragedies to impose on the world.>>>. yes i was 8 and we filled those little unicef milk cartons with pennies every halloween.
My college roommate grew up in Congo, the son of missionaries. He could not say enough good about Tshombe and said a few additional `mercs’ could have kept Katanga independent.
Lumumba was a communist stooge & there is Lumumba University in Moscow to this day, indoctrinating third world students in Marxism-Leninism.
Joseph Mobutu was just like Mugabe, Nkruma, Sekou-Toure & all the other tin-pot dictators of the region. He later became Mobutu Sese Seko which means “the rooster who leaves no hen untouched”.
By 1960 the United Nations had become utterly corrupt in backing anti-western regimes in the Third World. The U.S. should have gotten out then.
It isn't nice to say it, but Dag Hammarskjold was no hero. He was simply a bureaucratic hack doing the bidding of his globalist employer when he met his fate.
They hurt like crazy, and the responsible brother gets beaten.
Sorry for you penalty
I suppose they can take an eye out (see Christmas Story).
Sometimes I smash a primer installing it. I have burned them till they popped (with a mapp gas torch) but put them behind a safe barrier. Even just with a primer the case flies pretty far.
As a kid I would get a roaring fire going in a vacant lot and throw in co2 cartridges. Now they would splode!
The CO2 cartridge in the fire is one trick that didn’t occur to us. Dang.
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