Rachel Maddow Left Speechless Over Clint Eastwood's Speech at RNC

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18. If she was against American Imperialism, she should have recognized that American troops

(I don't know how many, but maybe even a majority of them) are/were as oppressed as the Vietnamese, in a different way. There was that stuff going on at that time about how Americans should fight the draft and refuse to enlist, but none of it is/was as simple as "choosing" to raise your hand and swear to obey and to be subject to the UCMJ. Over simplifying that situation did NOTHING for the Peace movement and, in fact, may have damaged it.

Hope you don't mind my two-bits here: I am a Veteran, though not of combat, there are several Veterans in my family, mostly non-combat, but there is one Ranger and my Dad helped liberate Nazi concentration camps. Last week, some in my family were celebrating yet another enlistment, from one of the poorer branches of my family. I didn't say anything and will remain as neutral as I possible if I'm ever around the young fellow. But this is one more example of the most profound aspects of poverty that there is and, for whatever good she did, Jane Fonda also failed to do something very very important for these people.