The coming days......
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:16:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: "Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message ... On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:17:29 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: While I can agree in hindsight that going into the military during Vietnam was a foolish thing to do you are unnecessarily insulting the millions of who served for altruistic and patriotic reasons. No I'm not. The only ones who would be insulted are those who read what they think they see, rather than what's written. What you wrote was: Any American who fought in Vietnam to "defend the freedom of the South Vietnamese" is a fool. Ah. Hardly anyone who fought in 'Nam did so to "defend the freedom of the ...". You're right, about anyone who served will only see: "... fought in Vietnam" ... "is a fool." Trolling? raw nerves so exposed that they can't read *anything* accurately. They expect to see insult, so they do. Michael may be one of those. If we can't be frank about what went on there, why people went, why they *thought* they were there, and so on, then you're just sweeping some important history under the rug. I was draft age then; many of my friends and some relatives went; some of each died. We all re-examined the whole thing a hundred times over, mostly after they returned -- those who did return. I don't know of anyone who went to "defend the freedom of the South Vietnamese." Most had no idea how South Vietnam's profoundly corrupt and oligarchic government worked, in the first place. They were told that Vietnam was part of a proxy war between communist totalitarianism and capitalist democracy. Very few had any idea whether that was true or not. Leave out the bile toward good people and focus on those who created the policies and wars. People might listen then. How do you know which are "good people"? Plenty of them were not. And when did you start absolving citizens of democratic states from responsibility for carrying out the decisions made with their acquiescence? You can't have it both ways. |
The coming days......
"Don Foreman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:16:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message ... On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:17:29 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: While I can agree in hindsight that going into the military during Vietnam was a foolish thing to do you are unnecessarily insulting the millions of who served for altruistic and patriotic reasons. No I'm not. The only ones who would be insulted are those who read what they think they see, rather than what's written. What you wrote was: Any American who fought in Vietnam to "defend the freedom of the South Vietnamese" is a fool. Ah. Hardly anyone who fought in 'Nam did so to "defend the freedom of the ...". You're right, about anyone who served will only see: "... fought in Vietnam" ... "is a fool." Trolling? Taking remedial reading these days, Don? My wife teaches a really good class on the subject. -- Ed Huntress |
The coming days......
Ed Huntress wrote: "Don Foreman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:16:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message ... On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:17:29 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: While I can agree in hindsight that going into the military during Vietnam was a foolish thing to do you are unnecessarily insulting the millions of who served for altruistic and patriotic reasons. No I'm not. The only ones who would be insulted are those who read what they think they see, rather than what's written. What you wrote was: Any American who fought in Vietnam to "defend the freedom of the South Vietnamese" is a fool. Ah. Hardly anyone who fought in 'Nam did so to "defend the freedom of the ...". You're right, about anyone who served will only see: "... fought in Vietnam" ... "is a fool." Trolling? Taking remedial reading these days, Don? My wife teaches a really good class on the subject. It can't be worth a damn. If it was, you could read what you wrote. -- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense! |
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