Now he is promising to end the war in Afghanistan. There is no reason to not believe him. What’s Romney’s plan for Afghanistan?

“I’ll talk to the generals when I’m president and listen to what they have to say.”

WTF? How can he not have an opinion about it now? The man is a foreign policy midget.

The Right made a big mistake sending the working and middle classes to college in large numbers. We’ve been causing them headaches ever since the post-WWII GI Bill, and especially now with the baby boomers and the Viet Nam generation. I know I probably would never have finished college without government assistance.

You can see now how they have no intention of ever letting that happen again, and are taking steps to ensure it won’t.

That’s why so much of the media has a liberal bias, why so many institutions of higher education have a liberal bias, why traditionally the Intelligentsia has been liberal. They know how to think for themselves.

“Dittohead” is the opposite. They tend to believe what they are told to believe. Tend to be Conservatives.

Its not that difficult, most people get through the experience OK. But no one gets through it unchanged.

The initial impression was that you couldn’t argue too smugly the merits of our involvement in VN because most of the people you’d have to convince had actually been there, and all the people who were likely to agree with you, hadn’t.

I wasn’t immediately recognizable as a Vet, I wore my old dungarees, chambray shirts, and bluejacket (Navy fatigues) so I looked just like any other hippy in bell-bottoms and a work shirt. My hair was short, because I was still a reservist with weekend drills to attend. Only the fading name and rank insignia stencilled on my clothes gave me away as a GI, and the blue was swamped by the sea of Army and Marine green on campus. They had told us in the service it was illegal to wear our fatigue uniforms as a civilian, and our dress uniforms were only for official holidays. But we were proud to wear them anyway.

The university (at least the public, state university) wasn’t so much a hotbed of anti-war activism as a a hotbed of anti-war veterans, mostly working class kids who in the late 60s, would never have had the chance to go to college otherwise. It’s funny how that aspect, so compelling to anyone who actually lived through it, doesn’t seem to have survived in our film and TV dramatizations of that era.

This is not me, its a stock photo off the net. I never wore the “dixie cup”, or white hat, as a civilian, though. I favored a blue baseball cap with a Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club patch sewed on it.