Like the espionage act and so many other laws, NSA spying was promised to be utilized against "the enemy", or "the other" but like its predecessors its been used by the US government against its own citizens for decidedly non-security related purposes.
Mark fundamentally misunderstands the Viet Nam war. The Peace agreement of january 73 was nearly identical to that of October 72- Linebacker II was an exercise in futility and depravity and was primarily a Nixon-temper tantrum. The air force ran out of targets because the North's economy and industry were nearly non-existent even before the war-attempting to relate this to a WWII air campaign narrative is ignorant and highly disingenuous (and echoes mcnamara/Pentagon liars). Using a trillion dollar military to fight a peasant army is stupid regardless of how many Mcnamara-esqe obfuscating stats you can muster. The air force considered Linebacker II a "major success"?, Mark apparently suffers from the same pathetic myopia/"optimism" that infected the Pentagon at the time. According to the Pentagon Viet Nam was one giant success, because like Mark they couldn't (or wouldn't) realize they were fighting the wrong war. Mark should research Laos and Cambodia for some more accurate glories of the Air Force. Jeez it drives me nuts to hear perpetuation of Viet Nam misinformation which hinges on purposed misuse of statistics. Dropping a billion times more ordinance than X-war is a testament to futility and stupidity not a source of pride or benchmark of success.
My thought exactly, disconcerting trends are everywhere....
Like the espionage act and so many other laws, NSA spying was promised to be utilized against "the enemy", or "the other" but like its predecessors its been used by the US government against its own citizens for decidedly non-security related purposes.
Mark fundamentally misunderstands the Viet Nam war. The Peace agreement of january 73 was nearly identical to that of October 72- Linebacker II was an exercise in futility and depravity and was primarily a Nixon-temper tantrum. The air force ran out of targets because the North's economy and industry were nearly non-existent even before the war-attempting to relate this to a WWII air campaign narrative is ignorant and highly disingenuous (and echoes mcnamara/Pentagon liars). Using a trillion dollar military to fight a peasant army is stupid regardless of how many Mcnamara-esqe obfuscating stats you can muster. The air force considered Linebacker II a "major success"?, Mark apparently suffers from the same pathetic myopia/"optimism" that infected the Pentagon at the time. According to the Pentagon Viet Nam was one giant success, because like Mark they couldn't (or wouldn't) realize they were fighting the wrong war. Mark should research Laos and Cambodia for some more accurate glories of the Air Force. Jeez it drives me nuts to hear perpetuation of Viet Nam misinformation which hinges on purposed misuse of statistics. Dropping a billion times more ordinance than X-war is a testament to futility and stupidity not a source of pride or benchmark of success.