Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:18:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for
>> >> Canada. They at least made it all the way to the capitol and
>> >> successfully captured
>> >> it before resistance and (primarily) the weather squashed the
>> >> invasion. I don't think we had quite that much success in 'nam.
>> >>
>> > Also, the Canadians in 1812 were not hampered by a micro-managing
>> > president bent on ensuring our defeat.
>>
>> Not a fan of President Madison?
>>
> I was talking about LBJ during Vietnam. I don't enough about Madison to
> speak intelligently on his strategies.
Aah, OK. That wasn't clear since the quote it appeared you were responding
directly to was in reference to 1812.
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