My despair about that is that for all but a very few Americans, war has been "over there" for all memory, and they have no clue about how horrible a civil war/war on your own soil is and actually want it.
The war in Vietnam that I marched off to was essentially a civil war that America put on steroids. What I saw was beyond death and dest…
My despair about that is that for all but a very few Americans, war has been "over there" for all memory, and they have no clue about how horrible a civil war/war on your own soil is and actually want it.
The war in Vietnam that I marched off to was essentially a civil war that America put on steroids. What I saw was beyond death and destruction. In villages I saw sandbag bunkers next to people's homes. Every day they might come home to no home or family. How would anyone want to live like that?
I could go on and on, but my point is that there is little more awful for the people living in it than civil war where even victory is pyrrhic. Optimism in the face of such idiotic *thinking* (sic) is difficult.
The MAGAs are not the only ones arming themselves, it's an American phenomenon.
I live in Vietnam and when I first came here as a tourist in 1998 there were still a lot of victims of land mines wheeling around on little carts. By the time I moved here in 2010 they were mostly gone, now they're all gone. The way they think about it one would think it was as long ago as ours.
But there are still unexploded mines and once in a while I would run into someone who'd been unlucky
My despair about that is that for all but a very few Americans, war has been "over there" for all memory, and they have no clue about how horrible a civil war/war on your own soil is and actually want it.
The war in Vietnam that I marched off to was essentially a civil war that America put on steroids. What I saw was beyond death and destruction. In villages I saw sandbag bunkers next to people's homes. Every day they might come home to no home or family. How would anyone want to live like that?
I could go on and on, but my point is that there is little more awful for the people living in it than civil war where even victory is pyrrhic. Optimism in the face of such idiotic *thinking* (sic) is difficult.
The MAGAs are not the only ones arming themselves, it's an American phenomenon.
I live in Vietnam and when I first came here as a tourist in 1998 there were still a lot of victims of land mines wheeling around on little carts. By the time I moved here in 2010 they were mostly gone, now they're all gone. The way they think about it one would think it was as long ago as ours.
But there are still unexploded mines and once in a while I would run into someone who'd been unlucky
I know too many amputees resulting from mines. They kill and maim after the fighting ends.
Decades after.