“Those who were against the war were right”
We will just have to agree to disagree on that. I found that opposition to the Vietnam War came from 3 types of people: 1) those like some of my friends who did not want to be drafted; 2) Marxist radicals who wanted to use the War as a platform to start their own ‘revolution’ (some of whom, alas, are still in politics); 3) a small number of idealists who disapproved of the violence.
Were you there and then? Which were you?
We will just have to agree to disagree on that.
You think that war was worth losing 58,000 young Americans? Why Am I not surprised by your position here?
I found that opposition to the Vietnam War came from 3 types of people: 1) those like some of my friends who did not want to be drafted
Oh, you're talking about the nearly 18,000 draftees that died in combat? You wanted more dead? Some didn't want to be shipped off to some jungle in Asia in a country which was absolutely no threat to the U.S.? What a shock.
I know at least 3 that came back in boxes. Another good friend survived but took shrapnel to the eye, which popped his eyeball out of his head, dangling down..They just snipped off the optic nerve in the field.
Tell me, since China and the Soviet Union extensively aided North Vietnam during the war, why not attack them too? What's up with that? In fact, corrupt government now sees Communist China as their great trading partner...
How screwed up is that Mr. Vietnam Vet? What do ya think the dead would say to you now?
So everyone who did not support the war/police action in Vietnam was a radical?
Get real, Mr. Vietnam.