Tom the exterminator

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon Apr 8 12:56:11 PDT 2002


joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> writes:

"Oh boy, did it ever lose Vietnam. Not only that, it also lost Korea: when you're that powerful, a draw is a loss."

I was thinking about this the other day: where were the substantial defeats of US hegemony in the 20C.

The answer is that they were all delivered by Asians: Pearl Harbour, Korea, Vietnam..

I suppose there's Cuba, but the US military were not fighting directly.

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