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Originally posted by Jake
Try the band "Rage Against The Machine" for modern anti-war songs.
For my taste, I will take Toby Keith or Darrel Worley PRO-American songs.
I grew up at the end of the sixties and got sick and tired of the wining and carping of the anti-war crowd. Vietnam might have been the wrong war at the wrong time, but most protestors were unwittingly helping the North Vietnamese and the Chinese Communists spread genocide through southeast Asia (see Cambodia, H'mong tribesmen and Laos)
For what it's worth, BMG Music has a couple of CDs you might want: "Protest Songs of the Sixties" & "Peacemakers and Potheads" (I'm not joking about the title) I have both, like the music, just not the message...........
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Jake, do you honestly feel the Vietnam War would have turned out any different protest or not? The govenments we supported were utterly corrupt, the average guy was utterly pro-communist, and it was simply a better system for them, anyone who has studied Oriental cultures will tell you that. Did you know we rejected the results of the first free election in Vietnam after WWII because Ho Che Minh won? It is so impossible for us to accept the fact that these people wanted us out, and their culture commanded that even if it took a thousand years they would do it, and it is impossible to accept that certain culture perfer communism. The Chinese seem to be doing very well with using it as a starting point from which to evolve into a captalist culture.
The saddest part of the whole thing is that Ho was our ally in WWII, and repeatedly said he wished to form a non-aligned socialist govrnment that tilted to America - it was our McCarthyite far-right wing crowd that put the kabosh on that in 50s.