Hippies of Today

[T4Texas]

Originally Posted by Yellow band

I often wonder why demonstrations about Iraq (prolonged Iraq) and now Afganistan have not happened.

I think it is because the college kids of today are a different breed than the ones in the 60's/70's. They are not cohesive as a group about social/political issues. As for the rest of the country...my opinion has always been that as long as the unpleasant things don't affect middle America's daily life, then they are not going to care or do anything about it. Vietnam was a very nasty war that drug on for many years and really split our country in many ways. I see Afghanistan as being the same kind of war, one where we chase them from pillar to post and never make any headway with it, but absorb huge loss of life in the meantime. It's a war that will never be won and at some point we will pull out just as we did in Vietnam leaving the country not for the better and having lost thousands of lives that could have been better spent. We have our politicians to thank for it and some of the blame is our own because we elect these people and do not hold them to some kind of accountability.