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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by twblalock on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:47AM (#13069533)
> Not all wars can or should be won. For example, the war on drugs cannot be won, just like the war on alcohol was a mistake.

I'm talking about real wars, not metaphorical wars.

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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by qznc on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:52AM (#13069542)
Yeah, the choice of war was not optimal. I'm looking for a war, which is mostly uncontroversial (on HN). Maybe Vietnam? The crusades?
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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by joslin01 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:20AM (#13070100)
Vietnam is a great example that proves original OP right, actually. We should have never been in that war. It was a main driving force in the anti-war attitude of the 60s and 70s.
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Re:War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933) by arethuza on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:33AM (#13069686)
Uncontroversial and Vietnam (or indeed the Crusades) aren't words that you see together very often!
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