Reply #25: This kind of problem was NEW back then.......

[NativeTexan]

....but we learned a lot of lessons. Well, some of did. Obviously not anyone in the Bush Administration. We realized that you can't always trust everything the government is saying to you. Nixon really brought that point home, too. And remember, this was in the Johnson Administration at first. Nixon kept sealing the deal.

All we had to compare to in the sixties were WWII and Korea. NOTHING like Vietnam. NOW we can look back on Vietnam and make the obvious comparisons that leaders who were either hiding out in a senatorial campaign, while hiding out in the National Guard....or had "other priorities" than joining the service, just can't see. And we can see that the same road is the same road no matter WHAT part of the world it is in.