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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (2898)	8/24/1998 8:23:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

<<<Have I changed, has the world changed, or was our attack now as immoral as our excursions into Cambodia then? I gotta think about that. Thanks (maybe!) for forcing thought.>>> The issue has been glossed over for a long time. The utter reality of the problem is that most of the protestors were idealists that had absolutely no idea of how the world worked then. First of all the single largest issue looming over the landscape at that time was the fact that young people were being drafted and then told not to shoot the enemy (for the most part). For the most part they can't be faulted too much for this. Many of them didn't see the threat nor know the history of Communist aggression up until that time or they dind't care. However, we did have an objective that was totally discolored by a majority of anti-war protestors in this country. Many of them, led by Jane Fonda, protested for their love of Communism. Plain and simple. One of the top military leaders of Vietnam claimed in a Wall Street Journal editorial that the top miliary leaders of his country paid very close attention to the actions of people such as Jane and her minions and felt a surge of exuberance as they watched their cause being bolstered. Had those same protestors taken the initiative and petitioned the government to win the war rather than hampering the effort it would have been over quickly. As it stands, they finally got their way and we withdrew. Now, did the Vietnamese people benefit from that withdrawl? If your answer is yes then maybe your attitude may be that these people are better off under Communism than they would have been under a democracy. I have never been able to understand why it was immoral to attack a supply line and the enemy as they were being harbored in Cambodia and Laos.