Ah, the 1960s in the U.S. when the Vietnam War divided this county like it had not been divided since the Civil War former Sen. George McGovern said.
The potential for positive change flourished in the 60s with the likes of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and several other high profile activists. Just 50 years and days ago, the assassination of JFK sent the political world into an endless sea of corruption, greed and murder which included women and small children.
Maybe if JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. had not been assassinated, the U.S. government would still be riding on its path to destruction and greed. No one can know for sure now. Interesting how high profile politicians and other men with severe pull for peace are murdered. My guess is that there is no money in peace and that does not fly with any government in the world which is run by about five percent of major business.
Do the research and realize war makes millions and billions of dollars for a small group of people who continue to shroud the general public into believing war is necessary?
JFK sighed a bill to keep the U.S. from going to Vietnam. The very next day after his murder, then brand new president Lyndon B. Johnson revoked the bill and after 10 years, more than 55,000 U.S. soldiers were killed and more than two million Vietnamese, many of them women and children were killed. Incidentally the average age of U.S. troops killed in Vietnam were 19-years-old.
If you believe the pointless war in Vietnam was a 'conflict' or that the U.S. was combating communism which is another countries right how 'they' live, your simple wrong.
Boeing Airline’s which currently transports many of our troops to an oily death or limp removal in the Middle East makes massive amounts of money on war such as the Vietnam one.
Several huge corporations thrive on the profit of war; do the research. Today's wars are 100 percent about money, if you believe other wise, I'm truly sad about your blind perspective.
The top stories in the day before Thanksgiving were about shopping on back Friday, the crowed airports and how extremely cold it gets in northern territories this time of year. More than 6,600 U.S. troops have been killed and more than 50,000 have been wounded as of Feb. 5, in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars according to the article “U.S. Military Casualties and the Cost of War: Iraq, Afghanistan and Post 911-Conflicts” by John Wihbey wars. (http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/security-military/us-military-casualty-statistics-costs-war-iraq-afghanistan-post-911#)
Since the brutal fiasco in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, more than 1,700 U.S. military members have had amputations, more than 1,450 of those troops lost major limbs according to Wihbey’s article. Other research I’ve done estimated that between 2004-2009, more than 66,000 Middle Eastern civilians have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, two of many tame euphemisms for war.
”Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives,” John Lennon said.
