Since you evaded Serving during Vietnam, would not THAT be the second dumbest one instead of the Civil War?
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Vietnam was a dumb idea alright, and I would rank the war there the third dumbest war, after Iraq and the Civil War.
Vietnam was a land war in Asia, which Dwight Eisenhower correctly identified as something the US should avoid at all costs. The Korean War could have been easily avoided had Truman had a competent State Dept, but he didn;t.
Iraq is a rerun of Vietnam in many ways. Lies to justify the invasion, huge profits for the weapons makers, poor management of the local allies, a near total inability to deal with the locals, stubborn leaders who refuse to acknowledge that they are bungling imbeciles.
I am PROUD of not risking my butt in Vietnam. There is no way my participation, even if I were another Rambo, would have won that war or changed it one bit. Had I been killed, what would I have died for? Had I been maimed, what on Earth for? For naught! For nothing, bupkiss, nada, zewro, zilch.
Twenty ytears from now, what will we say the soldiers that died in Iraq died for? I suspect the words will be the same, for naught, para niente, para nada for zilch, zero, bupkiss.
