GI killers?
Gary MacLennan
g.maclennan at qut.edu.au
Wed May 13 19:24:44 PDT 1998
Lou and Dan are arguing about the correct attitude towards the soldiers who
fought in Vietnam. Here in Australia the Left heckled and jeered and
demonstrated against returning soldiers - calling them murderers etc. The
Right have lived off this mistake ever since. They never cease to remind
us how the "poor soldiers" were attacked by the Left.
It needs to be borne in mind when we talk about the soldiers that they were
conscripts from the least educated and poorest sections of society. They
were in a very real sense victims of the state, but the stupidity of the
Left allowed this fact to be obscured.
regards
Gary
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