No, Dwight, I agree with your assessment of the Vietnam war.

The knee-jerk anti-war movement I'm speaking about is the one currently
hampering our efforts to eradicate terrorism, that is funded to a large part
by nostalgic nam-era activists.

-- Stinger

"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Stinger" wrote:

--and giving credence to a knee-jerk
anti-war movement that persists (though
times have changed) to this day.


A "knee-jerk" anti-war movement? The Vietnam war lasted 15 years (25
years
if you count the advisors sent in the 50's), about ten years longer than
WWII. The war started while I was a young child playing with toys in my
backyard and I was able to join the military as a young adult before the
war
ended. Any response in the latter years of that war (the period with the
most wide-spread peace movement) could hardly be described as "knee-jerk."


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/