Check out this article—you may or may not agree with it.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/012/727xwxao.asp?pg=2
Heres another interetesting look at Dylan and Viet Nam—
worth a look.
After his accident in 1966 and his year-long recuperation he drew inward and became more reclusive, eventually resenting the role of moral arbiter for his generation and the next one.
lol. What an idiot. There were student riots in France. In Chicago in 1968 it was a "police riot" where the Chicago cops over-reacted and beat the heck out of dozens of students. A government commission found the city, police force and Mayor Daley were responsible for the violence, and so dubbed the disturbances "The Chicago Police Riots."
History is written (and rewritten) by the the last man standing.