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Originally posted by hermit22
Also, Afghanistan was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. To say it was part of their sphere of influence is, well, really just wrong. .
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Well, if my neighbor has tanks in my front yard, I'd have to conceed he has influence until I kick them out. South Vietnam was in the US sphere until we got kicked out of there, and we weren't even neighbors.
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Originally posted by socrates
What you are saying is that I am branching off at best or rambling at worst.
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No, what *I* am saying is that until you establish a connection, it's not branching or rambling, it's a non sequitur; it literally "doesn't follow". I can't "ramble" from 1 to 3 unless I pass though 2 on the way there. Going directly from A to C isn't "branching", it's teleportation. :-)
Of course, if the topic is actually "random Yankee bashing", then, as I said, you don't really need a connection.