[kearnyirish2]

BJ Clinton buried the hatchet with North Vietnam for exactly this access to cheap labor. Since then, I don’t understand how people enlist in the military outside of the purely economic reasons. We don’t even pretend these conflicts have any purpose beyond a decade or two.

[blam]

"BJ Clinton buried the hatchet with North Vietnam for exactly this access to cheap labor. Since then, I don’t understand how people enlist in the military outside of the purely economic reasons. We don’t even pretend these conflicts have any purpose beyond a decade or two."

Yup. Since the US government is now Communist it does not seem to matter much.

[Aria]

It’s pretty much always about who gets the money....except when it’s insane muzzies.

[billorites]

A decade is a long time I suppose in terms of world affairs. We now have an agreement with Vietnam giving our military access to airfields and port facilities in their country.

As someone famous said, “Nations have no permanent friends or enemies, they only have permanent interests.”

[NorthMountain]

We don’t even pretend these conflicts have any purpose beyond a decade or two.

Please comment on our economic, diplomatic, military, and political relationships with Japan, the Italian Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany.

[DuncanWaring]

Less than 20 years before John Kennedy said “Ich bin ein Berliner” we were doing our absolute best to burn the entire country of Germany to the ground.