[Publius]

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.

[pickrell]

"...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...."

True, except I think it has gone even further than that. As I recall the late Sixties and early Seventies- shame, itself, had not yet faded away, and the fear still existed of being exposed for doing such a hideous thing.

Today, however, it would simply bring paid invitations to speak on certain campuses.