[lbo-talk] Marc cooper spat on by vets maybe?

[philion at stolaf.edu]

There is a really oddball guy [friendly with John O'Neill, which tells
you about everything you need to know?] on the comments board of Marc
Cooper's blog who makes up stories about friends who were Vietnam vets
and have been spat on or 'punched in the back' by antiwar activists,
whom I've been challenging with Jerry Lembcke's debunking of the myth of
vets being spat on.  Cooper, so endeared to the principle of winning the
friendship of those on the right and far far right, has now apparently
changed his view of the myth, though at one time he interviewed Lembcke
twice about Vietnam Mythologies very favoraby.  Now such challenges to
the mythmakers are no longer allowed on the blog and besides, Marc
claims that he knew lots of antiwar activists who hated the soldiers, etc!:

"NO MORE SPITTING POSTS! I mean it. It's a boring, useless debate. I
have no doubt that a) some anti-war protestors HATED G.I.'s and I have
no reason to doubt they spit at them in some cases. I personally knew a
load of anti-war folks who hated soldiers ... and B) I also know that
the overwhelming majority of anti-war protestors saw the GI's as victims
of a mistaken policy and had no intention to harm them.... and C) there
were hard hats who bashed in the skulls of peaceful of anti-war
protestors but d) that doesnt mean that all contruction workers acted
like lunk-head storm troopers. NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO RESPOND TO THIS
POST. NEXT PERSON WHO BRINGS UP SPITTING ON GI'S FOR OR AGAINST WILL BE
PERMANENTLY SPIT OFF THIS BLOG."