That wasn't it. Due to the draft, there was sense on the Left that the guys in 'Nam were to be pitied, especially as their "consciousness hadn't been raised" as to the wrongness of what they were doing.
With no draft, the sense today on the Left is that our people in Iraq are the Enemy.
17 posted on 10/21/2007 4:06:29 PM PDT by Publius
(A = A)