" It's a hippy thing, and I don't understand."
No. It is an anti-war activist thing. They are doing exactly what anti-war movement activists did during the Vietnam War.
And if you have at all researched that movement you will realize it was strongly backed by card carrying Communists.
It had nothing to do with "a hippy thing" Hippys where simply losers by birth, who took to drugs and the easy way out. Can't hack the system so drop out and be a bum. These folks are just dead set against the war. Of course it is their right as American citizens to do what they are doing.
But surely they should understand they are giving aid to the enemies of the United States by their actions. This is precisely the stuff Laden and Zarqawi types want to see happen. You can be sure they are using it in their recruitement programs to enlist new Jihadist with hope.
So their protest are aiding the enemy. Tis that simple.
Yes, they were the 'useful idiots' just as they were in October 1917, 1968, and today. I lack the context of the time, so they are all just old hippies to me.
I guess my point is that they are the very same idiots. They've always hated America because of their own personal problems with their daddy, or God. The WWII generation gave them everything and they didn't like it....
Their own personal pathologies make them soldiers for those who would destroy us.
I missed the whole Vietnam protesting thing, but now they are protesting and pestering me and I don't appreciate it!