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To: FaultLine who wrote (67016)	1/19/2003 3:29:22 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ken, I was a 'fuzz brain ' during the Vietnam War era believing 100% that our involvement was in error... If I remember correctly, one line of reasoning used during the anti-Vietnam protests was that the US government had lied about the cause and justification for the war. Did it not turn out to be the case that the government did lie to justify entering the war. It is a reasonable inference that a war with a false start has not been thought through enough. I believe that this has also been demonstrated to be correct. It seems to me that the anti-war protestors of the Vietnam era had a strong argument that had the added advantage of being true. The mistrust of the government when it comes to war is solidly rooted in the Vietnam experience. I saw Peter Bienart (sp?) from the New Republic argue that the current anti-war movement is fragemented and unfocused and not presenting a very strong case. Roughly speaking, this is my position. Just because the anti-war movement during Vietnam was proven correct in one of their main arguments doesn't imply that the current anti-war movement is also correct. Incoherent is probably a more apt word than fuzzy-brained. However, fuzzy brained had a certain editorial flair that I quite enjoyed. Paul