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You say "I offer no personal view of Vietnam." but you said it was an "illegal, immoral, and unwinnable war" Are you really unaware that people disagree on all
by xlnt 18y ago
You say "I offer no personal view of Vietnam." but you said it was an "illegal, immoral, and unwinnable war"
Are you really unaware that people disagree on all 3 of those points? They are political positions.
- edw519 18y agoThat was the argument of the protesters, not mine. Sorry. If only I could write prose as well as I could code. :-)
- hugh 18y agoAh, well all you need is a "what they saw as". And for the most part, I don't think any of those other points was nearly as important as the draft. It's one thing to think that a current war is a bad idea, it's quite another to know that you might be forced to go and fight in it.
- xlnt 18y agoIf that was their argument, and it's a political argument, then they were "playing politics". That's all.
- edw519 18y agoIn restrospect, it's easy for us to sit on our butts and call it "playing politics". But for many of them, it was literally a matter of life or death. Going to college or fleeing to Canada were their only options (unless you shot your toe off). Makes red states/blue states seem kinda lame, huh?
- xlnt 18y agoIf you don't want to be a soldier, that isn't playing politics. But as you said, that wasn't the position of most protestors. If you say the war is immoral, illegal, or unwinnable, that is getting involved politics.