Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92

Hmmm... So disagreeing with our boys being placed in harm’s way by four left wing presidents (and yes, Bush was left wing in my book) for questionable gains or reasons makes me a DU troll?

Tell me exactly, what did the U.S. gain from Korea? I would say the situation there is as unstable as ever after the loss of more than 36,000 American lives.

And what about the war you bravely fought in? What did the U.S. gain after more than 58,000 of your brothers died? Did we remove Communism from the peninsula?

What have we gained from Iraq after loosing more than 4000 American lives? If anything, we removed the one lunatic that was keeping the neighboring lunatics in check.

In any of these wars, did we gain precious resources for our country? Did we gain territory? Did we gain safety? Did we even remove the general threat that perpetrated our involvement in the first place?

You tell me my opinion doesn’t count as I have not experienced combat. You are correct that I have not fought a battle, but I do not see how that negates my own mind from forming an OPINION. While I have not served in combat, I have served. I am a veteran, having spent four years as an enlisted man and twelve years as a line officer in the United States Navy - including command of my own vessel. I followed a long line of family members who have served - and died - in every American war since the Revolution. My father, who just passed away, flew A-6 Intruders in the Navy, and T-38s for NASA as part of the Astronaut training program. While I don’t speak from the position of combat, I do speak from the position of being a loyal American conservative veteran - who doesn’t always believe the things our government forces our boys to do - and die for - is the correct, and honorable, thing to do.

Thank you sir, for your service to our country.

And yes, your opinion, how much I disagree with it, has standing because of your service.

But IMHO, your conservatism is akin to that of Charles Lindbergh and the America First committee. Isolationism does not contribute to our survival as a nation. Didn’t work then and won’t now.

BTW, communism in its Stalinist form does survive, in tinpot dictatorships like communist Vietnam, Cuba, and North Korea.

But the Soviet Union was long ago bled white by our refusal to accommodate and their refusal to stop their quest for world communism; it collapsed and is no more. Putin’s Russia will never attain the same power again.

Communism in China is an ideological joke and serves only to perpetuate the rule of the `communist’ elite who laugh at the ascetic communalism of Mao Tse-tung and count their billions of `filthy capitalist dollars’.

The Republic of South Korea stands in stark contrast with its bustling prosperity. Our fight against communism in Asia did the same for Japan and Taiwan, and Australia as well (they, the Thai, and South Koreans fought alongside us in Vietnam).

No, I don’t think the hallowed dead of the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Muslim world, will ever be proven to have died in vain.

The German dead of two world wars, yes, they did die in vain.

“...your conservatism is akin to that of Charles Lindbergh and the America First committee.”

Well...

As Lindbergh was a closet Nazi (which along with Fascism is a leftest ideology), I would disagree with your characterization of my beliefs.

I prefer to subscribe them to the “Beware of foreign entanglements” philosophy of George Washington (which he didn’t really utter in his farewell speech word-for-word, but the sentiment of his remarks were the same).

BTW, as long as we’re throwing out wars, I’m not a big fan of our involvement in World War I, either - which again we were led into by a Democrat president.

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