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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tommaso who wrote (114004)	6/15/2008 12:23:50 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The first thought that came to mind after reading your post is this: if the result of McCain's POW experience is a mind geared to perpetual war, how can the result of Gitmo and other secret prisons maintained by the US be any different? We are creating a culture of McCains in the ME. Yet McCain can't see this?

To: Tommaso who wrote (114004)	6/16/2008 9:27:04 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Where I disagree with both of you is that opposition to the Vietnam War in the U.S. did not attract huge notice until AFTER it was obvious that we were in a war we could never win. Yes, without U.S. based opposition, we might have been able to keep our puppets in power in Saigon forever. They would never control the countryside and we would never allow South Vietnam to have anything approaching a democracy. In a democratic election, The Viet Cong would have won many parliament seats and probably the majority and the Presidency. The VC were not especially popular, but our handpicked and handkilled dictators appealed to nobody besides a small elite within the country. That elite now lives in the U.S.