[William McKinley]

I am getting the sense that in this election, we will be re-fighting the Vietnam war. Time to start looking back.

[leadpenny]

Marked for later. On my way out to play in Saturday traffic.

[maestro]

Sure,....and....'JFK' would still be alive if he had been a socialist-Buddhist!

[rj45mis]

I like Tony Snow. He has more common decency in his little finger than all of Hollywood lumped together.

I went to Vietnam when I was 18. I only wish I knew at the time why I was there. It would have given some meaning to it all.

[hillsborofox]

ping

[joesnuffy]

It proves the old adage:
If you are teen aged and conservative...you have no heart
If you are middle aged and liberal...you have no brain

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I am getting the sense that in this election, we will be re-fighting the Vietnam war. Time to start looking back.

Mom, Apple Pie, and the Ghost of Quagmires Past

I agree.

[onedoug]

"Time to start looking back."

By looking forward.

[expat_panama]

the first time in American history that we waged war not only against a foreign enemy, but against ourselves.

Being a democracy, America is was never monolithic in any of its wars. Anyone here remember the Civil War (Ooops, the 'War Between the States' for my southern in-laws).

He also got wrong that domino theory bit. If the theory worked, than after Burma we'd have lost the Phillipines, Japan, then hopefully California (well, maybe one out of three was true). But it didn't happen because the theory was bogus. In conflicts you pick defensive positions and Vietnam was not one of the best places to defend.

But we did defend there for the better part of two decades and Snow overlooks the biggest myth-- the idea that our efforts were wasted. They weren't because our goal was (or was supposed to have been) containment, not conquest. We contained communism (or at least slowed it down a lot) enough for Reagan to finish it off in the '80's. I'd call it a successful Fabian defense.

[MEG33]

Perhaps it is moreso on this board but I know Kerry sets off old outrage in me.

There were also a lot of groups promoting the overthrow of the government,led by criminals more than idealists.They blew up a few buildings,robbed banks,people died.Communist infiltration.Flower children

Then there were the plain old hedonists!Hedonism was a religion..If it feels good do it!Clinton?

[Tribune7]

bump

[U S Army EOD]

As far as giving Veterans their due, I was unemployed in 1980 but was trying to get into civil service. I was not allowed to use my VA preference because I had over two years of college, at the same time Jimmy Carter was allowing the maggots to come back from Canada and they had federal jobs waiting on them if they came back.

[larryjohnson]

ping me