Thread: When is War OK?
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Old 05-10-2008, 12:15 PM   #68 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BMFMonoxide View Post
His current position on Vietnam is that we shouldn't have gone in but the way that many people in the anti-war movement acted actually led to more deaths. That's not to say that any person who opposed the war should have kept their mouths shut. However, there's a responsible way to protest and stand up for what you believe without trying to bring down the country whose freedoms you're exploiting. People like Jane Fonda never understood that.
Did he get into the specifics more as to why he felt that many people in the anti-war movement's actions led to more deaths? I haven't heard that before and would be truly interested in the reasons.
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