-- James A. Donald:
I am anti war. You lot are pro Saddam.
Michael Kalus
Why. Because we OPPOSED the war on Saddam?
Because you have been justifying his actions, denying his crimes, and calling for his release. James A.Donald:
But instead the opponents wound up chanting 'ho, ho, ho Chi Minh" Ho Chi Minh was a senior KGB agent, who after spending ten years behind a desk in Moscow organizing the murder of Indochinese nationalists was sent from Moscow to rule what became North Vietnam. He purged 85% of the communist party, murdering a large but unknown proportion of them, and conducted a terror against the peasants of extraordinary savagery.
Michael Kalus
Yet you still think there was a good reason to Oppose the Vietnam war? Make up your mind man. Was it a "just" war like (in your opinion) Iraq right now or was it unjust?
It was an unwise war fought by unjust means. The cause of saving the Vietnamese from Soviet domination was a just cause, as the terror and the flood of refugees that followed the defeat of the west in Indochina proved. However, "just cause" is only one of the several criteria needed for a just war. (And the Iraqi war does not satisfy all the criteria of just war either, though hanging Saddam is surely a just cause.)
Why does the "american way of life" have to win?
The world cannot remain half slave and half free. We must become slaves, or they must become free. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG jZXTBmVpML2nLd2bSKH/1gh9Qm3dDT6mYomGoIsl 4wZklKuwlV/p34b+cMEJm5vQiUIkitUC0+bJTIw0v