Johnson didn't start the war. it started with Eisenhower sending "military advisors". the first troops were sent in under Kennedy. Johnson just inherited an already growing conflict and accelerated the nation into war.
As for the song I see how the problem of the discrimination based on econimic and social status but there is also another. the song also shows how the public gets too carried away on patriotism.
"it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son." - i interprit this to be a knock on the military die hards who will degrade you because the don't deem your patriotism to be as high as theirs.
the war was ill planned and the reasons of it were lost in the politics. it parrallels the war in Iraq today. what exactly are we fighing for? Back home we have heinously untrustworthy leaders acting almost like a dictator under the idea that we are fighting against terror and for freedom. the issue with this war, however, isn't how the rich get out of the draft. the issue is that we are fighting another war that is unnessesary. Unfortunatly we have gone to far to pull out of it and now we must put our troops in great harm to try to clean up Bush's mess. what does america stand for anymore?
@Boo Urns Kennedy never sent a combat troop. He only sent advisors, a month before he was killed he issued NSAM #263 ordering all military personnel to be withdrawn starting with the first 1,000 by the end of ‘63 and all the rest by the end of ‘65.
@Boo Urns Kennedy never sent a combat troop. He only sent advisors, a month before he was killed he issued NSAM #263 ordering all military personnel to be withdrawn starting with the first 1,000 by the end of ‘63 and all the rest by the end of ‘65.
Johnson didn't start the war. it started with Eisenhower sending "military advisors". the first troops were sent in under Kennedy. Johnson just inherited an already growing conflict and accelerated the nation into war.
As for the song I see how the problem of the discrimination based on econimic and social status but there is also another. the song also shows how the public gets too carried away on patriotism.
"it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son." - i interprit this to be a knock on the military die hards who will degrade you because the don't deem your patriotism to be as high as theirs.
the war was ill planned and the reasons of it were lost in the politics. it parrallels the war in Iraq today. what exactly are we fighing for? Back home we have heinously untrustworthy leaders acting almost like a dictator under the idea that we are fighting against terror and for freedom. the issue with this war, however, isn't how the rich get out of the draft. the issue is that we are fighting another war that is unnessesary. Unfortunatly we have gone to far to pull out of it and now we must put our troops in great harm to try to clean up Bush's mess. what does america stand for anymore?
@Boo Urns Kennedy never sent a combat troop. He only sent advisors, a month before he was killed he issued NSAM #263 ordering all military personnel to be withdrawn starting with the first 1,000 by the end of ‘63 and all the rest by the end of ‘65.
@Boo Urns Kennedy never sent a combat troop. He only sent advisors, a month before he was killed he issued NSAM #263 ordering all military personnel to be withdrawn starting with the first 1,000 by the end of ‘63 and all the rest by the end of ‘65.