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In at least a few instances, bounties were placed on unpopular commanders in underground

shi newspapers asking for the assassination of commanders who were a little bit too gung-ho about the war.

You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing

on the stories behind the front lines. Hello and welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Galt. With me today's venture capitalist

turned writer Bruce Cannon Gibney. Gibney's first book is the delightfully titled

A Generation of Sociopaths How Baby Boomers Betray America. He's here today to tell us about how everything

we know about Vietnam War resistance is wrong. Bruce, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

All right, Bruce, so it was my understanding that baby boomers fought in the streets to end an unjust,

bloody, inexpensive war of aggression in Southeast Asia.

Old politicians wanted to send the young to a meat grinder to die and the young would not go and without those protests marches and civil disobedience we might still be in Vietnam and your book kind of tells me that all of that is wrong. Is that correct? Well it is a

narrative that is substantially misleading. There certainly was a coherent and

principled anti-war collection of boomers,

but it was not the majority of boomers.

And this retroactive attempt after the strategic failure in Vietnam to appropriate the much smaller

boomer minorities coherent opposition to the war by the vast majority of

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