11-16-2004, 10:59 AM
elcoholic Wrote:I'd love to start another one of these discussions but lets just say you have a very unique way of looking at international politics and the 'rights' the US has that other countries don't. And calling people who try to fight for what they believe in by protesting selfish is beyond me. You live in a free country. Respect the people who earned you the right to protest.
You tell me what you had to gain and then end it with admitting you didn't gain anything in the end. You just lost. There are many people who wished you had learned something from Vietnam.
I'm sorry for going OT with Cid but his war propaganda makes my blood boil.
I do respect the people who earned me the right to protest. I do NOT respect the people that openly opposed the war, and I feel every person that spit or slandered the soldiers should be shot.
And South Vietnam (a democratic country) needed out help, and the U.S. at the time stated it would help ANY country keep or spread their democracy if they were threatened. We helped for a while, listened to those damned protestors and abandoned the country. =/
What did I have to gain? Nothing. The South Vietnamese had a LOT to gain. And I feel we should help any country that's in need of U.S. assistance.
It's people like you that allow thousands of people to be killed by genocide because you don't feel it's any of our business. Tell me, do you think we did the right thing in fighting Saddam when he invaded Kuwait?