Tours Of Vietnam

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Vietnam Vets-Does the level of rancor and vitriol in America today remind you of the Vietnam War era?

This is the same atmosphere I remember encountering when I came home from my last Vietnam tour; except for chrome hardhats and rioting college students.
I strongly suspect the lack of a military draft is the main reason for the latter.

What do you think will help the US come together besides a new terrorist attack?

Please - No BS about either Obama nor McCain making a difference. It's much deeper than politics.

Ex US Navy

Yes. I do see some similarities. And it isn't the absence of a draft. It's the presence of something else. That's the most diabolical invention since the end of the Korean War. The "instant on" switch on TV sets. We are being conditioned to expect all problems to be resolved instantly, like the acquisition of sound and picture on a TV. That anticipatory "entitlement" has even worked its way into the world of the internet. I've witnessed people on laptops at airports and coffee bars developing anxiety because of slow down loading of some images and data.
So, if we begin military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and those same operations are still ongoing beyond the 27 minutes and 30 seconds (plus commercials) allocated to solving problems on some TV show, we get restless. Even though every person in a position of civilian leadership in the nation since September 11, 2001 has told us this is the Long War and it's going to take time.
All of this is further complicated by two diametrically different hordes of hypocrites in our society. First are the members of the "Petey Patriot Platoon", engaged in cheer leading and "support the troops" rites when many of these same people would not have given the time of day to a man or woman in uniform on September 10, 2001. They are in political combat with the "Bleeding Heart Brigade" who moan and wail over every military death (combat or non-combat) when their silence was almost total when it came to the 7,500 men and women who died in uniform in the previous U.S. administration. Of course, their animus towards George Walker Bush blinds them to recognition of those earlier casualties. That animus is also symptomatic of their overt elitism, equating President Bush's Texas accent with signs of below-average intelligence. The same situation showed up during Vietnam with regard to Lyndon Baines Johnson. One can also see similarities between the "9-11 Truth" group and those who believed LBJ was behind the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Classic Howard Stern: Tours of Doody (Vietnam stories)


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