Reply #5: Vietnam Was an Equal Opportunity War [View All]

[Demeter]

Everybody in a position of political power wanted the glory, everybody feared the defeat. Everybody had to put their 2 cents in, and everybody jumped up and down on the Peace Movement. Peaceniks, they called those visionaries, trying to tar them with the taint of Soviet-style communism.



Well, there was no glory, and the defeat was manifest for years, even before it was official.

And Soviet Communism died of its own economic insupportability. But Castro is still going strong, and Cuba is in better shape than ever. Maybe even better than the US after Bush and Cheney trashed it.

And Iraq is fundamental in that BushCo trashing. End Iraq and Afghanistan, and we might have a chance of recovery. Keep it going, and the US will be a sitting duck for the next act of God that comes along: influenza, inflation, insurrection, or some other In thing.

Vietnam's war criminals never yet paid for their crimes. Most of them are dead now. The rest are in the GOP. Let us not repeat the failures of our fathers and grandfathers. Let's learn from the suffering.