{"id":549,"date":"2004-02-11T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=549"},"modified":"2004-02-11T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T07:42:13","slug":"sanity-about-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/sanity-about-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity about Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Clifton, Vietnam vet, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/weblogs\/dougclifton\/index.ssf?\/mtlogs\/cleve_dougclifton\/archives\/2004_02.html#014766\">coverage of Bush &#038; Kerry&#8217;s war records<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So to Bush&#8217;s detractors: Why demean him for doing what anyone with any sense would have done? If you can escape getting shot at by an angry enemy, why not?<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nAnd to the Kerry detractors: Why demean his valiant service because he had the good sense afterward to denounce a stupid war?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would also suggest we consider the attitude of insurance companies when they write policies for young male drivers: the premiums don&#8217;t fall till the guys get old enough to acquire a lick of sense.  The time before age 25 should be called The Stupid Years and our answer for our behavior is as follows:  We&#8217;re sorry; we were idiots trying to avoid responsibility or get laid.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Sheila Lennon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/cgi-bin\/include.pl\/blogs\/shenews\/archives\/weekninetythree.htm#ng\">has a bunch more links<\/a> about this dustup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Clifton, Vietnam vet, on the coverage of Bush &#038; Kerry&#8217;s war records: So to Bush&#8217;s detractors: Why demean him for doing what anyone with any sense would have done? If you can escape getting shot at by an angry&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/sanity-about-vietnam\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}