Well it started with I think Strk posting something from the Guardian - about the POW photo's and I went to look at the page.
While I was there I saw that they had a This Day in History page, I thought it would be about the death of Hitler, which was around this time but when I opened it I saw it was about America leaving Vietnam.
It seemed to me to be ironic that one of the key events in SE Asia, from a war that resonates so strongly within America even today occurred during the same week as America finds itself in another war.
I posted the link to see if anyone on the BBS would make that connection, what was interesting was that people got very upset. Why - because they realised, even those who are fervent pro Bush, that there are direct similarities - if there were not why be upset?
Educated rational people should be able to discuss events around them, what is happening in Iraq is going to effect America for the next 50 years - much as Vietnam effects America today - what actually happens in here however is that people run on raw emotion based on parroted or pasted pre-concieved ideas.
Made me laugh when some idiot thought he'd show me by saying that "Next Tuesday is the anniversary of the Falklands where a British Destroyer was sunk!! So there!!"
Um, I'm not British, I admire the very, very brave men on both sides of that conflict who did their duty, whether it's Argie Skyhawk pilots or Para's at Goose Green.
Anyway - hope that answers the question, just remember most people on the internet really aren't worth getting worked up about.
