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/p> p> IT WON'T BE PRETTY br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Hippies' Last Hurrah /p>

The really big difference between the real 1960s and the redux is that back then this gang of thugs were only the toddlers kicking and screaming in the street until Mommy and Daddy got out of the war, and they didn't have to see the results of that surrender and flight until many years later.

Today they ARE Mommy and Daddy -- they are the ones who will be sending millions of men, women and children to their deaths by their votes or by their actions -- and everyone will see the dead bodies and the mass graves 24/7 right in their living rooms...while the people who are responsible for it are still in command, and with their own words broadcast telling us that the butchery, carnage and destruction we are seeing "Ain't Gonna Happen."

p>Personally, if the conservatives can't get off Stupid long enough to stop it before it starts, watching Jane and John and Bill and Hill try to weasel their way out of taking the fall for this one would be worth the price. br> -- Kate Shaw br> In the Bleachers Watching /p>

As a former peace-marcher, draft-dodger and general-purpose sixties clown, I cringe when I behold a bunch of gray beards, halfwits and homely women struggling under the weight of picket signs that have been in storage since 1969. How can they refuse to learn from, or even acknowledge, the grim business that followed the end of America's presence in Southeast Asia? Half a million people were sent to concentration camps in Vietnam. In Cambodia, a million were slaughtered at the behest of a psychopath, educated in France, who committed genocide to prove that Rousseau was right, that people are basically good.

How, late at night, with the TV off and the lantern flickering, can these people pretend that what they said and did in the '60s should be a source of pride? How, with that maniac little fellow from Iran striking deals with his counterparts in Korea and Venezuela, can they pretend we are not in danger? My guess is that, after 40 years of dither and look the other way, it is impossible for them to acknowledge that the values of their counterculture were no more than night moves and funny lights. To do that is to acknowledge that Richard Nixon had it right, and that peace-marchers, draft-dodgers and general-purpose sixties clowns were no more than a rabble, exploited by knaves and fools at home and abroad. And they are doing it again.

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