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To: michael97123 who wrote (230693)	5/10/2007 6:16:32 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Michael, there are "crazies" in any movement. You don't judge the movement by their crazies. Unless the crazies are actually the leaders. LBJ didn't get us into Vietnam, it was crazies in Eisenhauer's administration who did that. True, LBJ escalated it--and the reason he did it, we now know, is because he wanted to get his Great Society program through, and he needed some of the crazies' support, so he threw them a patriotic war bone. Not that he dreamt for a minute that it would become what it became. As for Korea and Truman--even that was a reaction to mindless patriotism. Truman was being blamed for having lost China, he couldn't lose Korea as well. Even getting into the Vietnam morass after the Korean War was over was connected to that. Mindless patriotism is repulsive, and leads almost always to terrible mistakes. If not immediately, then in the ripeness of time. It creates a poisonous atmosphere that all too easily does stupid things, maims and kills.