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Pat Riots! Let us examine one of the other usual rationals for conflicts overseas: "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here." I
By John Amato — August 20, 2005

Pat Riots!

Let us examine one of the other usual rationals for conflicts overseas: "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here."

I really love that one. It was said ad nauseum during the Vietnam war, a war we lost, and since we lost it, of course we all remember fighting the Viet Cong in Indianapolis and Butte, Montana, right?
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