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Old 07-14-2006, 12:42 PM   #101
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I read a great book a few years ago about a huge battle that took place in Vietnam in 1965. The gist of the whole story was how unbeatable the North Vietnamese Army was under the command of General Giap. One thing that I gleaned and has stuck with me was the question, "how can you beat an army that has been at war for seven hundred years and the soldiers live in the jungle on a handful of rice a day?" In a different way but in the same regard meant in the book about the Vietnam war the same can be said for the desert dwellers of the middle east and thier war of a couple of thousand years. Some of these people know no other way of life, other than conflict. And they never have any expectation of living any other way!

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