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On 5/9/2011 3:19 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2011 12:01:38 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:


There has never been a protracted war from which a country
has benefited.


Id have to disagree.

The US benefited for 60 yrs from WW2


We were only active in the last 3 1/2 years of a war that lasted for 13
years, starting with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Hardly
"protracted". Also, we did comparatively little of the dying and
suffered no destruction of our industrial capacity.

David
 
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