Originally posted by wolfgang59Why should the British give Americans any VCs since we are not a British Commonwealth nation? What did the cowardly Europeans do when we were fighting against communisim in Vietnam? I see no advantage to having NATO allies if the Europeans are too cowardly to help us fight against evil and tyranny in the world. And the United Nations is a joke. Most of those nations unite to kiss the ass of the dictators in the world instead of uniting to fight for right and freedom for all men.
How many VCs have Americans won?
Eh?
Originally posted by RJHindsI said before that I wouldn't speak to you again. I've come to terms with your usual nonsense, but now I feel I have to break my promise. This is too much.
What did the cowardly Europeans do when we were fighting against communisim in Vietnam? I see no advantage to having NATO allies if the Europeans are too cowardly to help us fight against evil and tyranny in the world.
Your words are offensive to me as a moral being. Your behavior on this site has long shown a disregard for moral principles, but I don't recall you calling the American atrocities in Vietnam a fight against evil before. For all that is good and holy, please, don't do it again.
Originally posted by WanderingKingThe United States was pledged by treaty (SEATO) to aid the member nations in southeast Asia, if they were attacked by a communist power. SEATO was an alliance of eight nations - France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the UK and the US - that signed the SE Asia Collective Defence Treaty in Manila on Sept 8, 1954. The United States was the only nation that attempted to live up to this treaty.
I said before that I wouldn't speak to you again. I've come to terms with your usual nonsense, but now I feel I have to break my promise. This is too much.
Your words are offensive to me as a moral being. Your behavior on this site has long shown a disregard for moral principles, but I don't recall you calling the American atrocities in Vietnam a fight against evil before. For all that is good and holy, please, don't do it again.
http://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/SEATO
In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War.
http://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/GulfofTonkin
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Originally posted by woodypusherI thought this was about politics. It looked that way to me from about the 6th post onward at least and maybe from the 2nd post. Didn't politics play a part in Kasparov getting that award?
This was supposed to be about Garry Kasparov's award. Why does the same idiot who tries to change science posts to mythology try to change this one to some war the United States lost?
Congratulations and Happy Birthday, Garry Kasparov.
If not, what did chess have to do with it?
