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>>"I can not comprehend the mentality of the people that would this."
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>You should have been paying attention in 1973.

Unfortunately, you are correct. And some of those people sit in Congress. Despicable.

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Despicable also describes the person or persons who did this.

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Scottsman wrote: "I just can not comprehend how they come to their beliefs and actions."

What I cannot comprehend is that so few have learned from the 30 years since.

I can ascribe it to fear in the sixties, arrogance and momentum in the seventies...but today?
After 9/11?
With Guard and Reserves fighting & reenlisting?

For a long time I believed that triumphant flower children simply could not admit they'd been wrong.
Now I wonder if the Iron Curtain didn't come down a bit to easily for people to remember that a real conflict had existed.
I wonder if people don't simply believe that everything will work out OK if we only stretch it out a bit longer without really doing anything.