Quote:
Look-War is money.
The arms manufacturers tell me unless
we get our bomb factories up to full production
the whole economy is going to collapse
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Funny how a song written in the 80's is still relevant today.
The rules changed in '68. Nobody wins a war anymore.
Vietnam? The combined communist forces of North Vietnam were declared victorious in the Tet Offensive. Let's see, they lost more than 10:1 killed, failed to achieve even one objective and left themselves crippled for months to come. The US could have marched right into Hanoi unabated. How is that a victory?
3 decades later, western capitalists are setting up shop in Vietnam, just like old times. Bought a t-shirt from WalMart lately? Bet it says, MADE IN VIETNAM by sweatshop laborers make slave wages just like colonial French Indochina days....well the first 3 words anyway. Uncle Ho Chi Minh and Chairman Mao are wringing their hands in disgust at the decline of their "Proletarian Paradises"
Like the 2006 Lebanon war?
"oh, Hezbollah won that"
Not so much. Lebanon's infrastructure is screwed for a long time. Way to go Hezbollah! You screwed your entire country for a largely ceremonial "victory".
The Falklands? What exactly did the UK win? The only real winner in that conflict was the French when they're air to ship Exocet missiles were proven effective against Her Majesty's Navy.