Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114011)	6/16/2008 10:09:21 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

>>>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<<< It attracted enough notice to lose both Fulbright and Al Gore senior their senate seats. (I was originally from Tennessee and shared very closely the mindset of both those gentlemen, a word I use without any irony to describe them.) McCain clearly continues to see those who opposed the Vietnam War as mainly unpatriotic counterculturalists. It's a less vicious version of the German view following the first world war that the government had betrayed the army. Funny how nobody seems to want to talk about the brilliant success of the first Gulf War. I guess the Democrats don't want to give anything away to the Republicans, and the Republicans don't want to admit that the present situation was a huge mistake by comparing it to the Kuwait liberation war.