[knarf]

The 'job' of Viet Nam was to kill off educated middle class and below .. men.

Men that might become politicians and vote against the swelling elitist class ..

Men that might become financiers that would really .. honest to God .. invest people's money that was actually legal and would return a profit ..

Men that would work hard, teach their children about America and hard work and would be smart enough to not allow any enemy ... foreign or domestic ... threaten the life they had developed.

Men that grew up with John Wayne and Norman Rockwell and Buffalo Bob Smith and The Lone Ranger ..

Men who believed somrthing.

Viet Nam was genocide

[wally_bert]

Interesting take on Vietnam. Never thought about it in that respect.

[defconw]

Interesting. Well they failed to completely get my husband, who is a Vietnam Vet. But he did not marry until he was middle age and there will be no children. So I guess they still got him in the end.

I just hope I will be able to care for him in our home. the VA care he's gotten is OK as far as we know, but I never know whether they just put a band aide on it or if they really are looking out for him.

[wagglebee]

Interesting take on Viet Nam.

I'm not sure that it would be so easy to pinpoint the intent, but the outcome is certainly as you described.

In addition to those killed, millions more were certainly so scarred by the war that it negatively affected their whole lives.

[Chickensoup]

I don’t know about Vietnam but I do look at all the nice conservative kids who signed up for the armed forces and have been killed and injured.

All the homeschoolers.

And I wonder who will be left? I imagine that the bulk of the force going over to Africa are going to be those sorts of guys.