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Re: Hails First Test of Missile Defense

From Don <g@crcomp.net>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Hails First Test of Missile Defense
Date 2026-07-07 15:26 +0000
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

<snip>

> Because, with our usual proclivity for Strong Men and dictators, we
> set up a South Vietnamese government of French-speaking Roman Catholic
> Northerners and never really understood why they were unable to govern
> a country composed of Southern peasants who were Vietnamese-speaking
> Buddhists. And credited the Viet Minh with getting the French out.
>
> But then, to us they /all/ were "gooks".

Your suggested scenario seems fit for a low budget B-movie about the
"Nam" war. You share the typical self-serving anti-Catholicism of crony
capitalists who profit from colonialism:

    French officials built several pagodas for Vietnamese
    Buddhists to worship. What colonial officials saw as a
    simple and obvious act of accommodation to Vietnam’s
    majority religion, missionaries saw as an active effort
    to turn Vietnamese Catholics away from the Church.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20220819050955/https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/religious_missionaries_and_the_colonial_state_indochina>

The French state's anti-Catholicism ultimately failed. The thriving 
Vietnamese community at my parish is served by two itinerant Vietnamese 
priests, one of whom shuttles between my church and Vietnam. A monthly 
mass is celebrated in Vietnamese. The slim, silken haired, impeccably 
dressed women who attend are a Catholic's Catholic.

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“Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 17:54 -0500
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  Re: “Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-25 23:35 +0000
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              Re: “Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-27 15:17 -0500
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                Re: "Hegseth Hails First Test of America's "Golden Dome" Missile Defense Shield" Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-06-28 18:59 +0000
                Re: "Hegseth Hails First Test of America's "Golden Dome" Missile Defense Shield" Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-28 23:29 +0000
                Re: “Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 02:05 -0500
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                Re: “Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 15:17 -0500
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                Re: Re: “Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-06-30 20:51 +0000
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                Re: “Hegseth Hails First Test of America’s “Golden Dome” Missile Defense Shield” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-06-30 15:31 -0500
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                Re: Hails First Test of Missile Defense Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-01 23:54 +0000
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                Re: Hails First Test of Missile Defense oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-07-03 15:53 +0000
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