[lbo-talk] Trenchant comment from Max's blog

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 29 15:54:29 PDT 2004


Luke Weiger wrote:


>Steve Kyle, an econ prof at Cornell, wrote the following:
>
>"Iraq is just like Viet Nam in this way:
>
>We dont have the will to do whatever it takes to 'win' because that would
>mean destroying whole cities and killing tens of thousands. The other side
>does have the will to do whatever it takes to get us out. So they will
>prevail in the end."
>
>http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000371.html#comments

But "we" killed 2-3 million in Indochina. Does Prof Kyle not know this?

Doug



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