Interesting article here while we are on the subject of nukes (probably more interesting than grudges etc anyway)

I spent four months travelling around Vietnam and took an interest in the country's history, especially the wars it had been through.  They took on anyone who wanted to duck with them, the Americans, French, Chinese etc. and usually came out on top.   


www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803

The UK was smart enough to realise that war was "created" by the USA, namely the CIA, and it's only purpose was to satisfy certain factions who needed/wanted a war.

While I was in Vietnam I read a book written by an ex-CIA case officer called Ralph McGehee, "Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA".

Amazing first-hand account of the lengths the CIA went to in order to create the illusion that became The Vietnam War. (The Vietnamese refer to it as the American War)

From Wiki -

"In his 1983 book, Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA,[50] McGehee recounts his duties as a intelligence agent. For several decades he was assigned to East Asia, performing in the field and at CIA stations in Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Details of the practices and techniques of a CIA case officer are given. He shows how he gradually changed his view of the Agency. CIA operations in many cases damage the people affected, and overall results are often negative for America, our allies, or the world. CIA intelligence can be altered or pitched so that political purposes frequently trump the accurate information.[51] Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair praised it as "one of the outstanding books written by former CIA agents".[52][53] The book was published again in 1999 with updates."

No double speak, just out in your face ideas. I prefer femininity to masculinity, probably because I am a man. Men shout and rage and resort to violence. A woman is more considerate and less likely to threaten with physical force. Yes she will to defend her child, but not to defend her unspeakable ideas. That is the realm of men, who will resort to violence when the argument is lost.

Why ,let's say 50% are female and if you teach, the girls are superior mostly, with regard to learning, listening and unless encouraged,silent. The silent majority. Of those that break the glass ceiling , it is they who have learnt to be masculine.

I miss my old boss. Too add, she was also very hands on- taught a few classes herself- not one of these ivory tower types. Contrary to common practice in Thailand she'd let us fail kids or give low grades if the evidence supported it. Contrasted with the moron who was my boss at a mall language school on the weekends- ex navy, bad tempered- particularly when multilingual kindergartners showed up his IQ . One day he got it into his head that he should have a go at this teaching malarkey; within 15 minuets the kids decided he was a better climbing frame than a teacher. Boy, did he blow a gasket that time. Hilarious for all apart from him

This is Thailand based. Hence the rub.