89Hen wrote:Support for almost any war (in the larger sense of the word) is generally weak. IMO there's nothing wrong with trying to preserve some of the support by not showing 100% of what goes on. If you're saying you want 100% honesty and fair reporting, you're nuts.kalm wrote:
I was talking about honesty.
During Vietnam, they showed a lot of our boys getting cut in half by bullets. Open woulds, legs blown off, the naked girl running down the street from napalm, the Vietnamese officer shooting the captured VC guy in the head, monks immolating themselves...all of those vicious pictures and videos depicted what was really going on (instead of what some folks wanted us to believe) and drove American opinion towards getting our boys out of that war.
Those pictures, and many like them, are what EVERY American should see, OVER and OVER, whenever some dippy whack job congressman, businessman, or President says that war is a necessary evil.
And, in the end, why did over 50,000 of our kids dies over there?
Did we get what we wanted? Did we prevent the NVA from winning? Did we prevent any slaughter? Did we end up with Chinks digging tunnels to America? Did Thailand fall? Is Australia now part of the communist block? How about the Philippines? That war was bvllshlt, and you know it. Most wars are not necessary evils...they are bvllshlt fights for power where the power brokers don't get hurt because they send the poor and uneducated to do the actual fighting.
Wars are pure profit for the decision makers...wars are a way to distract and/or inflame the masses.
Show the pictures of the reality of war...and then make sure the Senators and other leaders are sending themselves and their offspring into the conflict first.
Yous guys is funny.
^ these seem more like personal issues... 
