On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:56:41 -0600, "Gene Storey"
wrote:

"Ed Rasimus" wrote

Well, it was my time to waste and pretty damned exciting.

Well, maybe you'll write a sequal: "When Thunder Stopped Rolling"

The part where the Vietnamese had to clean up the mess you left,
and are still trying to recover economically, while you drive your
Arab Oil SUV tank to the Chinese Wal-Mart.


I've got no regrets. The Vietnamese "mess" seems much more closely
related to Marxist economics and revolutionary rhetoric than anything
we did. The sequel right now is titled "Palace Cobra: Fascination With
a War", but that might change. It deals with going to the same targets
in the F-4 five years after the first tour, primarily because of the
efforts of those you seem to idolize who burned their draft cards and
stayed home.

Today in Vietnam, the economy is booming, tourism is rampant,
immigration is open (I encountered several Vietnamese students on
campus last semester who coincidentally were born in 1975, the year
the Saigon government fell.)

As for "Arab Oil SUV tank," I drive an Infiniti coupe and my wife
drives a Toyota. We get good gas mileage. I became disenamoured of
"Yank Tanks" during the years I lived in Europe. I don't shop at
Wal-Mart, but I often suggest my classes look at clothing labels in
their local Wal-Mart as a clear indication that American free
enterprise is succeeding in undermining the Marxist utopia in China.

You seem to be heavily into sloganeering, innuendo, stereotyping and
simplistic interpretation of events which you don't demonstrate a
clear understanding of.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8