"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article , Gunner says...

financed by Jane Fonda). Many veterans believe these protests led to
more American deaths,

Blaming anti-war protesters for deaths of soldiers in that
war is nonsensical.

No, it isn't. If Americans, on a seemingly large scale, at least a very
famous and public scale, rallied in support of Osama and his crew, and/or
against the brave American servicemen fighting OBL and his ilk, you would
see an emboldenment of the enemy that is certainly not evident today.
Do you think the U.S. would have defeated Hitler and the Japanese in WW2 if
the Air Force and Pattons 3rd Army had had to send LBJ a list of air strike
targets begging for permission to kill the enemy, only to have LBJ and his
incompetent croonies go thru 3 or 4 pages of the list before authorizing a
strike, due only too "candy ass political reasons" ? Nope, nope and nope.
FDR had a whole truckload (probably many truckloads) of faults, but at least
he let those trained to kill the enemy decide who, when and where to do so
for the most part. And they did so in an very effective manner.

JTMcC.



That's like blaming the ambulance driver for the car
crash he responds to.

Many americans at the time felt that war was both illegal
and immoral, and felt it their civic duty to protest US
presence. My personal feeling is that the politicians
of both flavor did not care about public opinion, and
the broad spectrum of anti-war feeling encouraged them
to end the war. Thereby preventing any more deaths from
it.

Jim

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