My war, Vietnam, the media was pretty far from hawkish...depends upon the media...you include the BBC? I sure don't remember reading gushing commendations about Vietnam by any stretch of the imagination. My father's and uncle's war...WWII...they showed patriotic pro war pep talks before the movies started. Told everyone how good things were going and how brave we were...didn't happen for my watch.
Eisenhower was my commander in chief during my years of service. I thought the man an idiot for shit he had us do. Sending us into harms way without anyway to defend ourselves with the rules of engagement. But it did back the dictator he had chosen against the dictator he opposed without actually starting a war. That is a good thing, it took 50 years to see it that way but it is a good thing. Still he was not a genius.
You’re right. There was a huge anti-war movement during Vietnam. Bigger than there’s ever been before or since. The problem today is that there is no anti-war movement to speak of. None. Everybody says they don’t want war, followed by a “BUT”. The anti-war liberals of past are extinct, the Democratic Party has sold out, like the Republicans. They have succumb to the pressure of lobbyists and the new scheme is to dupe the masses into wars using the guise of humanitarianism. Gotta get rid of those dictators, even if we have to kill a couple hundred thousand civilians to do it. People say “yeah but it’s complicated.”
I do not see Trump doing this sort of folly.
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I agree with you about the profit of war...the "deep state" I define as the arms dealers cranking out those Huey's and blowing through gazillions of rounds of ammo....then the black market coming back the other direction with "heroin" following. I ran a teletype machine and message processing...the military had a tendency to cook the books on stats and supplies. You might remember the 75 dollar toilet seat bolts?
Hey, it was a war zone and jounalists were restricted on when and where and how they could travel.
Thank God even the Trump administration has cooler heads with regard to the use of nukes.
He’s a reputable source now? It’s been debunked man. At best, there was never any proof. At worst, all signs point to anti-Assad forces and even the beloved white helmets, who are terrorist sympathizers, as having a hand in the attacks. The story has changed since 1 minute after the attacks when US intelligence pretended to already know who was responsible and begged congress to let us bomb them. Other groups actually did an investigation to find facts, imagine that. What they found was that nothing the US said was true, imagine that.
It has not been debunked by anyone reputable. All the world's leading press agencies that have visited the region concur that the Syrians have attacked civilians with deadly gas.
