Originally Posted by beechnut79
Seems as though we didn't learn our lesson. Wasn't our involvement in Vietnam supposed to teach us that we couldn't continue to be the world's policeman? But yet there were many people who thought we should have stopped Hitler before we did, and if so might have been able to prevent the Holocaust.

Does anybody feel that the same kind of social unrest now taking place in Iran could happen here? And why or why not?


Why not we've been there before. We did it in the 60s and early 70s. We had the whole works riots, bombers, etc. Just didn't catch on (we were bought out). One step away from civil war. Could easily happen again.