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Mojo apparently you prefer the narrative delivered to you by people who have never been to war... that's your right as wrongheaded as it may be. It's also the right of true American patriot heroes like John Kerry, John Murtha, and Jane Fonda to question the actions of THEIR country. If true American patriot heroes like Jane Fonda and John Kerry hadn't stepped up and told America what was actually going on in Vietnam we'd in all likelihood still be sending our young there to die. Ultimately of course what changed U.S. opinion over Vietnam was the switch to a random lottery draft system (1969 I think) that didn't just pull conscripts from minority and economically destitute social strata. Who was the paper tiger in that instance?
Mojo your belief that wars just occur "for right or wrong" is pretty disturbing. Decisions were made by real people at every step to escalate these conflicts (I recommend "Fog of War" if you haven't already seen it). It also takes real people, American patriot heroes, to end these conflicts.
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