My Eyes Have Seen October 2, 2007
Posted by ymarsakar in History, War.trackback
I thought this was an interesting comment from a Neo-Neocon archived post.
by PostLiberal
I obtained Conscientious Objector status during the Vietnam War. I was prepared to go to jail if the draft board did not grant me that status.
JFKerry’s views on Vietnam were set in stone by 1970-71. My views changed.
The genocide in Cambodia convinced me that it was not possible to stand on the sidelines and wash one’s hands of evil, while others got slaughtered. There IS such a thing as the lesser of two evils.
Having grown up in a small town with a fair number of refugees from National Socialism and Communism, some of whose children I dated, meant that I did not deeply agree with the leftist view of America as the Great Sinner. I did for a while somewhat agree with that viewpoint.
My working overseas did away for good with any vestige of my support of the America as the Great Sinner viewpoint. Racism, ethnocentrism, and lack of opportunity for the common man are to be found in much greater proportion outside the US than within the US. Mine eyes have seen.
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