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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Hound was subjected to McCarthyism!!!!
	Date:	4/1/2011 10:36:59 AM

Don't get me wrong, I agree it was a mistake and it was handled poorly from the beginning. And the servicemen and women that were killed or wounded (physically and mentally) paid a high price. But so did millions of Vietnamese after we abandoned them. Many of them were also innocent.

My point was I just have no recollection of there being a red scare in the U.S. when that war was going on. The concern was over the spread of communism but it is easy to say given the 20/20 vision of hindsight that it was overstated or wrong. But I think if you go back to the 60's there were plenty of good reasons for people to be concerned about the spread of that ideology. And the more we learn about the disastrous results of communism and tens of millions that died all over the world and the hundreds of millions that suffered, the more I think our cold, warm and hot wars against this evil ideology were right and justified.