"Boater" wrote in message
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I should have "positive" feelings about our involvement in Vietnam? With
55,000 dead Americans, tens of thousands more seriously injured, billions
of our dollars wasted, millions of Asians dead, and nothing to show for
our "investment" there other than huge profits for the military-industrial
complex?

Hell, we didn't even learn any lessons from that debacle.

Tell me, Richard, what did we gain from that war?
What were we doing there, besides propping up a series of corrupt
right-wing dictators?

Vietnam was screwed by the French, the Japanese, the allies after WW II,
the French again, and then the Americans. All they wanted was us the hell
out of their country.


I understand. I also understand the point Vic made. It was a different
time, a different era
and many of us that participated did so because we thought we were doing the
right thing.
You continue to harp on the subject, making negative comments of those that
responded to the times in a different world and without benefit of playing
Monday morning quarterback like you can.

Let me ask you this: When the troops finally come home from Iraq are you
going to start chastising them for volunteering because *you* didn't agree
with the war?

If you are consistent, I'll bet you will.

Eisboch