War-Losing Faction

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I didn't know we were at that stage of the relationship yet

Came as a surprise to me, too! :p Well, if either of us ejaculates mustard, we can use it on the hamburgers...

Dude, I live within pistol shot of Port Hueneme's City Beach. I've got all the ocean front I can stomach! Look again, though, at what we tried there -- at bottom, I can't see anything but a humanitarian impulse, especially with the understanding that international communism is not humanitarian by any definition, even Pravda's.

Your points are well taken; my point is that North Vietnam's winning did guarantee about the worst of all possible government. Pol Pot's government being an example of one that was slightly worse.

Yes, Nixon behaved stupidly -- and the thing about H2Ogate was the seeming routineness of it all. It had the flavor of something that had gone on for a very long time, among almost everyone in the political process, but kept behind the scenes.

For an exhaustive list of Democratic failures, that's going to take some time and offline composition to get it all down. Stay tuned -- but it makes rather dreary reading.