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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Suma who wrote (37981)4/5/2004 11:34:52 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 793990
 
<<< What I did tend to think was that we would be welcomed.>>>

I am naturally against war as a solution. But having said that, if GWB and his staff were to have pulled it off - if the Iraqi's truly wanted to be liberated from Saddam Hussein - and the outcome were different - I would have been happy for the Iraqi people.

Back in the sixties, I thought the war in Vietnam was a terrible thing. LBJ inherited Kennedy's Best and Brightest from Harvard and Yale. The B&B were no match for LBJ who I thought was a real scoundral. LBJ made the B&B do anything he wanted. They all caved in and made excuses for the war. They made it sound legitimate that we could lose 50,000 of our young people for some phoney national interest sound bites and prevention of falling dominoes.

In my mind, none of this stuff was true. I thought the war was fought because of LBJ's crazy, outsized ego. These Harvard and Yale intellectuals gave him cover. I thought LBJ was as evil as evil could be.

Now, I think a little differently. I still don't think much of LBJ. I think our institutions prevented LBJ from being a real monster. There were limits to what he could do. If he were in another country, in another time, who knows what he could have done - how much suffering he could have caused.

But as time goes on, I am beginning to think LBJ did far more good than harm. He really did a lot to advance civil rights and in turn human rights and rights for women. He got bills passed that a "good" President could never get passed.

The point I am trying to make here is that sometimes it is difficult to see things in real time.
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