[Vaquero]

I found the mid to late 60s disturbing... having been the son of a Marine who fought in Guadalcanal and Bougainville I was a pro US kind of guy who relished in the fact that we fought wars to the finish (never really paid much attention to the Korean debacle)....then LBJ and to a lesser extent Nixon decided we needed to fight a war in a tiny country in perpetuity. no endgame...major rules of engagement no win just send in troops to die.

I thought after 9/11 it would change...no deal. we used smart bombs where our fathers would saturation bomb .and level whole cities.

We won WW2. (well we should have gone on to destroy Russia afterwards...but we Finished what the Japs and Krauts started)

at this point in time I would strongly recommend that my 3 boys NOT go into the service under this administration or any GOPe administration.

[Political Junkie Too]

then LBJ and to a lesser extent Nixon decided we needed to fight a war in a tiny country in perpetuity.

It was Kennedy who began the escalation of USA involvement. He desperately needed to look strong against Communism after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and finally, the Cuban missile crisis.

-PJ