From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 29 19:49:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E433E37BA74 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 7173 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2000 03:49:27 -0000 Received: from du69.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.69) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 03:49:27 -0000 Message-ID: <38E2CE94.915116A6@mail.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:48:36 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jay Nelson wrote: > > With greater odds, Victor Charlie cleaned our collective clock. They didn't clean our clocks. After Tet '68 they were done as an effective fighting force. What they and their friends and allies did do was make the cost to us of winning higher than we were willing to pay. The results on the ground may be the same as if we had had our clocks cleaned, but the lessons learned are very different. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message