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April 12, 2005
Don't Let Them Die in Vain! Add to Their Numbers!
Here's another shot from the past -- this time John Bolton:
Growing up in the 1960s, John R. Bolton often debated with his high school history teacher over the dangers of America going soft on communism and giving up in Vietnam, honing a blunt hard-line style that would later become his trademark."He'd say `How can you let 2,000 men die there in vain?'" recalled Marty McKibbin, Bolton's teacher at the McDonogh School, then a private military academy in Baltimore. "The next year he'd come back and say, `How can you let 4,000 men die in vain?' He had his mind set on his views, and they haven't changed in 40 years."
Please someone remind me to repost this entry when the number of Americans and Iraqis who died because in this war on Iraq doubles -- and we're told we can't let them die in vain.
Posted by zeynep at April 12, 2005 12:15 AM
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can someone even tell me what that means - "die in vain"?
Posted by: dexter at April 12, 2005 12:25 PM
It is when someone dies before the spouse purchases life insurance policy.
Posted by: socioeconomics at April 14, 2005 02:30 PM