August 22, 2005

Sheehan : Letter to the Editor


A friend of mine sent the following letter to the editors of Norristown's Times-Herald.

    Dear Editor-

    Your article “Rallying together” of Thursday, August 18th covered the rally held by Colonial Area Democrats and MoveOn.org in support of Cindy Sheehan.

    I am curious if the Colonial Area Democrats and their candidates for school board and municipal office support Mrs. Sheehan’s statements such as, “the biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush,” “get…Israel out of Palestine,” and “this country is not worth dying for,” as well as her decision not to pay taxes?

    Such views and actions seem to be radically out-of-step with the views of most voters in Conshohocken, Plymouth, and Whitemarsh, regardless of their stance on the war.

    Jim S,Plymouth


It's clever that the stars on the flag are colored like the peace sign. I wonder if that woman, along with Joan Baez got the message that the 60's ended quite a few years ago.

Reliving the heydays, I suppose.

I can't help but think of the lack of retrospection on the parts of those who would compare Iraq to Vietnam, and agitate for our withdrawl.

It wasn't too long after our withdrawl from Vietnam that the place went to hell. How many died? How many fled? I've got a friend who was a "boat person." Harrowing tale. Perhaps I'll blog it one day.

How many millions died in Cambodia, whose oppressors had nothing to fear from a neighboring American military?

It that a legacy that the 60's generation is proud of?

Withdrawl means consequences for everyone. Something the "anti-war" activists don't say too much about.

War on Terror Posted by AlexC at August 22, 2005 8:00 PM

The self-outing of "Deep Throat" and the return of Joan Baez and Jane Fonda have had me thinking quite a bit about the 60s and their devil-spawn of a decade the 70s. I was born in 1960 so I got heavy doses of both.

You have hit the nail on the head. The problem is that the intellectual children of the 60s are convinced they were right. The media think the greatest thing they did for the world was to end American participation in Vietnam and chase President Nixon from office. Those are their big wins and they both damaged the country immeasurably.

We should look at this war through the prism of Vietnam. It would be good if we hadn't learned all the wrong lessons.

Posted by: jk at August 23, 2005 10:24 AM | What do you think? [1]