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This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'
I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.