Threat from the DPRK (North Korea)

[Eric the Green]

(09-21-2017, 11:20 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: You Boomers are obsessed with the Vietnam War. I know, I know, for at least the Aquarian Boomers, it was your war.

For the rest of us, it was just another pip squeak conflict that never evolved into Total War.

One of many, ever since we shit our own pants after doing two small nukes in Japan. The thing about MAD is, it is us Americans who are the most shit scared of nukes. Way more than any other people I can think of.

I doubt that. Noone who is sane is not scared of nuclear war.

Boomers are obsessed with the Vietnam War. It was the event that convinced us that the millennia-old dedication to organized killing was nothing more than killing, often for no good reason. But everyone is eligible to learn from history; the lessons of history are not restricted to those who were young at the time of any particular event. Any family that lost their sons in Vietnam is obsessed with it too, one way or another. It does seem to be true that only those who have fought in a war know fully what war is. We should listen to them.

The lesson of Vietnam War is simple. It's time to stop war altogether. It's nonsense. People other than Aquarian Boomers can learn that lesson. All you have to do now is watch the current PBS TV series.

Certainly "total war" is something to avoid if at all possible. I know, and I understand, there are rogue regimes out there today like the Islamic State and North Korea that can't be allowed to roam around killing people or shooting missiles at us and our allies. Crime exists, and needs to be policed. And there are other regimes that are more tyrannical than even the United States of America is. That doesn't mean we have to go to war with them, and it doesn't mean we have to assume they are getting ready to attack us at any moment. They aren't.

The folks who made the USA-Vietnam War assumed that the "communists" in Vietnam were Hitler and would stop at nothing to conquer territory all the way from Saigon to San Diego if they were "appeased." It was never true, and the "communists" in this case were just folks who didn't like foreigners coming in and taking over their country and imposing their ideas on them. Ho Chi Minh was not Stalin and not Hitler, and even Putin is not Hitler or Stalin either. It is not worth killing people to pursue these illusions.