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You say I am the Jane Fonda of the Right? Listen, I'm not the right wing. I'm not the left wing. I love my country. I stand for ordinary Americans, losers a lot of them. They don't understand big, international politics. Their country tells them to fight in Vietnam? They fight … The men who fought for us in Vietnam got a raw deal. Their country told them to fight. They did their best! They come home and they're scorned. People spit at them … It left scars, that period, and I'm glad we've come out of it. (Sylvester Stallone)1
The phase now is to make up a tolerable explanation for Vietnam. Our appetite is for a substitute answer, not the real answer. We'll salve ourselves. (David Rabe)2
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