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DFW

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7. So what else is new?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 01:04 PM

23 hrs ago

In 2001, I was invited by the government of Ecuador to go down there on a totally unrelated issue. I am talking about 25 years ago. I remember my surprise at seeing US troops in small groups in the hotel lobby dressed in combat fatigues. I had no idea what they were up to, but whatever it was, they don’t seem to have been very good at it if we’re still sending more of them.

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