We Have Forgotten That Vietnam, And Iraq Resent Being Invaded And Know The Ground Better Than We Do.
It Seems To Me The American People Never Really Forgave The Democrats For Being Right About Vietnam.
I Had The Good Fortune To Be Able To Right An Injustice That I Thought Was Being Heaped On Young People By Lowering The Voting Age, Where You Had Young People That Were Old Enough To Die In Vietnam But Not Old Enough To Vote For Their Members Of Congress That Sent Them There.
The Massive Anti-war Movement, Which I Was A Part Of And Which Was A Major Part Of My Life, Never Stopped The War In Vietnam.
I Dropped Out In '64. And I Came Back To Michigan, In '65. In 1965, When I Came Back I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam.
When I Was Arrested Opposing The War In Vietnam In 1965, As I Said About 20 Or 30% Of People Were Opposed To The War. By 1968, More Than Half Of Americans Were Opposed To The War. If You Pull In Europeans, Canadians, People From Around The Third World, The War Was Vastly Unpopular. But Even Half Of Americans By 1968 Opposed The War.
I See [lyndon] Johnson As The War In Vietnam, And The Invasion Of The Dominican Republic And So On. So I'm Not A Liberal In That Sense, Because I Think Of Liberals As Part Of That Establishment.
The Philippines Was With The U.s. In The Second World War, In The Korean War, In The Vietnam War, And Now In The War Against Terrorism.
