WHERE ARE THE ANTI WAR PROTESTORS OF THE SIXTIES AND FIGURES LIKE CHE GUAVERA, JIMI HENDRIX AND EVENTS LIKE WOODSTOCK.

Not so long ago, in a different era, a different world...an idealistic world, only disturbed by cold war tensions, the war in Vietnam war started escalating and raging, in the angry decade of the sixties. The analogy between then and now cannot be more stark or contrasting. The US misadventure in Vietnam can comparitively be classified as a noble' mission in comparision to today's naked aggression in post cold war IRAQ in a UNIPOLAR WORLD, and too on the ostensible pretext of finding WMDs. In contrast their 'involvement' in Vietnam started off during the cold war under the guise of militray advisors sent to protect their ally. South Vietnam was then facing an insurgency from am increasing belligerent Communist North , armed to the teeth and fully aided and abetted by a Soviet Union hell bent on expansionism driven by Marxist-Leninist ideology. The US found itself increasing isolated in defending an ally with 500000 US troops deployed 10000 miles away during the peak of the war. With increasing casualties, which touched 50000, and an increasing restive Congress and a divided nation with domestic protests at home fuelled by an idealstic 'flower' generation whose icon was Che Guavera , a hamstrung and debilitated president was forced to sign the Paris peace accords in 1972, which paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops and which in turn eventually 'facilitated' the takeover of the South by the North. In contrast , today's aggression in IRAQ, which has no justification at all, as no amount of subterfuge can justify it, and hardly evokes any protests of the kind witnessed in the swinging sixties.The non- chalance of today's mercenary generation is in sharp contrast to the idealistic sixties generation, what with their LSD, Woodstock, dope free sex..etc etc. The world is so different now.