Reply #14: There were two things that ended Viet Nam. Marches (which [View All]

generally turned into a free-for-all) and outright demonstrations which involved taking over college campus building, city halls, whatever. And no one said it stopped anything in its TRACKS dearie.It took time all right. But at the rate we're going now, Iraq will never end. So you can take your memory and your snarfy tone and try to impress someone else.

And as far as right now, nobody's doing a damn thing. Zero, zip, nada, zilch, nothing. So, whereas yes, the country was in an uproar back then during Viet Nam, the people made themselves heard. They brought an end to the war and to the Nixon Administration. This didn't happen because the powers that be wanted to end the war. They most certainly did not. And they knew that it couldn't be won. Just like this war, it cannot be won. People have been trying to conquer the Middle East for thousands of years. This is not new.