From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-09 13:07:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:07:24 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021009 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET) References: <3df17093_1@news.tm.net.my> <65wI9.42818$vM1.3404322@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <3df41e46_2@news.tm.net.my> <1039456034.146728@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1039468044.740495@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@fixedcost.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1039468044 7909 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31605 Date: 2002-12-09T16:07:24-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > P S Norby wrote: > >1. War never solved anything. > Vietnam As long as war has solved something, it is not true that war never solved anything. The article in question gave examples where war did solve something, so listing cases where it did not does not matter. In any case, that it is possible to lose a war is not sufficient reason not to engage in it.