about the war...have people lost connection with what war means? Through out history it seems that countries have gone to war with each other for no particular reason. Sure, there may have been some reason for each, but nothing major. It seems like people have a World War Two type "fight the nazis, the definite bad guys" atitude now. There may not always be some clear enemy. Some wars, like the world wars had definite causes for each country fighting, rather than just the leaders being pissed at each other. As for Vietnam, with the Gulf Of Tonkin and the destroyers supposedly being attacked, people who bring that up act as if it was the first time any government ever might have staged or faked an attack to rally it's people behind their cause. That has happened repeatedly through history. How do you start a war? you attack, fake being attacked, or you really are attacked.
Face it, governments go to war, usually for no reason other than because they want to. It's just what they do.