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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5212)2/6/2004 11:27:08 PM
From: shadowman  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
Most of my contemporaries here in the northeast were looking for any way that they could to avoid military service by 1966. Maybe there's some geo-political differences that explains that?

I never felt that people who supported the US government's policy in Vietnam in the mid 60's were non-thinkers. Ill-informed...misinformed possibly. I thought most were well meaning. JFK, who I still admire, was quite an inspirational figure at that time. By the early 70's the majority no longer supported the war. I still think that most US citizens are well meaning. It's not easy to fight through the fog of conventional programming...some might call it propaganda. Labeling someone a commie was a popular post WW II pastime...unfortunately

I grew up in a military family and like most early post war kids I was proud of my country. WW II John Wayne movies and such fueled that pride. I became disillusioned in the 60's with US foreign policy. Many baby boomers did (some of it might have been somewhat self-serving) ..I was an early anti-war activist, But arrogance was one of the Achilles heels of the baby boomer 60's-70's youth movement. The neo-cons apparently suffer the same affliction today?

An open mind is usually not a bad thing.
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