...   
      
    ->> I'd go even a bit farther in defining it:  The draft.   
      
    FS> I think it was the draft which especially bothered the   
    FS> draft-age kids -- and that's certainly understandable.  I   
    FS> thought the "war" was called-for -- at first.  I turned   
    FS> against it when I saw that most of the "North" Vietnam POWs   
    FS> were actually from the South.  Hence it was a civil war.   
      
    I heard that from an instructor in basic training.   
      
    FS> And I think the US should avoid all civil wars.  Let the   
    FS> "natives" fight it out. -> When it became evident that the   
    FS> sons of the upper class could escape, thus   
   ->> leaving only the poor subject to it, that became a big divisor.  That's   
    FS> why so   
   ->> many young men fled to Canada, and was really the first time the powers   
   ->> couldn't rally the masses to the cause. (What the hell ever that was?)   
      
    Given long enough the purpose fades away in any case, and it   
    becomes it's own justification.   
      
    ...   
      
    FS> The Korean "war", sometimes called "The Forgotten 'war'",   
    FS> was never popular with the majority of the public, probably   
    FS> because "winning" was not seen as absolutely critical as   
    FS> winning WWII WAS!   
      
    However, the Koreans thought it was important.   
      
    ->> Then the VN thing, and I'm at a loss to figure out just what happened   
    FS> there.   
      
    We stayed too long, too many of the upper crust avoided it, and   
    we never had a good reason to be there.   
      
    OTOH, that war did bring down the Soviet Union.   
      
    FS> I think it's known now that the North Vietnamese "navy" did   
    FS> NOT actually attack us as LBJ had falsely claimed.   
      
    That is not known.   
      
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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