Reply #17: What I Don't Get

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is the sudden mawkish sympathy for the VC! OK, I was old enough to remember VIVIDLY what the hawks said (and still say!) about our enemies in wartime.

"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out!"

They loved "free fire zones" and set their guns on "rock and roll" (full automatic), talked grandly about "lighting Charlie up" which had NOTHING to do with cigarettes! They bragged about how men collected ears, hands, mementos of the bloody fighting.

On my button banner I have several Viet Nam era buttons, the most telling of which is a B-52 airplane silhouette forming the center and arms of a peace symbol (black on yellow) and around the plane's shape are the words "DROP IT!" meaning, of course, the Atomic Bomb.

During the Guld War, at a science fiction club meeting, I heard Dr. Jerry Pournelle (slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun) say loudly "Hell, if I were in charge of this, I'd nuke 'em til they glow, and then shoot 'em in the dark!" In that same era, I heard such words of wisdom as "What's long, black and made of glass? Iran, ten seconds after we get through with it!"

So John Kerry shoots one Viet Cong boy carrying a rocket launcher and suddenly... BOOO HOOOO HOOOOO! Thiose big words collapse like a hot air balloon and they are weeping copiously!

What...............the..................F!CK!

Perhaps it is because those who have actually FACED another human being in war, knowing that only ONE of them must walk away alive... that person is humbled by the experience of taking life!

That is the difference between a chickenhawk and the Real Deal!

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