• Re: Run Away! Run Away!

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to nz.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics on Tue Aug 18 22:38:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.politics

    On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:13:22 +0000, Mitchell Holman wrote:

    Who else remembers "Vietnamization"?

    "We are not retreating, we are letting local forces do the fighting
    with our support"

    But there are no rCLlocal forcesrCY here attacking Efc<Efc+, since no other country was stupid enough to accept the Efc|Efc+ Idiot-in-ChiefrCOs invitation to join in the fracas.

    So once the US pulls out, thatrCOs the end of that.

    Unless Efc<Efc# wants to sacrifice itself, of course ...
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to nz.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics on Tue Aug 18 22:40:12 2026
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    On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:35:42 -0400 (EDT), Bradley K. Sherman wrote:

    Hobson's choice:
    |
    | Pentagon weighing smaller U.S. military presence in Gulf
    | once Iran war ends

    Except there is no face-saving way for Efc|Efc+ to end the war, without
    giving in, in some form, to Efc<Efc+rCOs demands ... and accepting the reality of who is now really in charge of the Strait of Hormuz ...
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