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Re: Re: Re: Thank you Janet Reno?


michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> good comparison.  didn't it undermine the influence of the French
> military?
>
> >
> > In its own way, this was an American Dreyfus affair, no?
> >

Actually, no -- by many orders of magnitude. The closest u.s. parallel to
the Dreyfuss affair was probably the Vietnam War and the whole movement
against it -- and even that had less impact on u.s. politics than the Dreyfuss
affair had on France.

Carrol
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