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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (13458)	4/16/1998 1:54:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Jack, I tend to look at MOTIVE a lot when deciding what I think about human behavior. I understand all your qualms about Jane Fonda, but aside from the war being undeclared, I truly believe that she was a patriot who was acting out of love for her country (misguided or not). I was an anti-war protester at the time myself, also, like a seeming majority of college students, so I felt like her action was a public service, really. I think her behavior during the Viet Nam war was much more principled than Bill Clinton's, for example. Speaking of My Lai, there was a segment on it on 60 Minutes recently, about two airmen who rescued the villagers who were still alive, and went back there to try to resolve their feelings and heal a little. Did you see it? It was really an excellent piece. I was stunned to discover that Calley only was in prison for a few days, or weeks, and then was on house arrest briefly, and was then freed. This made no sense to me at all, and when I compare this kind of injustice to Fonda TRYING to do a loving thing to stop violence, I am much more outraged by Calley's getting off. Please, no terribly angry posts about how I am a terrible Communist or socialist, pleased--I am not. I was much younger during Viet Nam, however, and had very strong feelings that I am not going to second guess at this late stage. But very sorry in advance if I have offended anyone!