Nixon decided to invade Cambodia to protect American forces

[HereSince1628]

from communist supply networks that crossed the border.

Nixon had secretly authorized bombing of Cambodia in 1969, though many Americans knew the US had made incursions into Cambodia since the early days of American involvement. Nonetheless, days after Nixon's invasion plan became publically known anti-invasion protests sprung up across the nation including one on the campus of Kent State where fear of protesters spun into a crisis that tragically changed American history. That event broke the back of the American people's support of the war in Vietnam.

American's response a generation later to an announcement of expanding war is serious non-binding resolutions of disagreement. How different things are. I don't have a longing nostalgia for a return to the massacre of students. The nation is't concerned at the same level, and National Guard are now far more fearful of IED's on Iraqi streets than they ever were of name calling university students.

But I doubt the vote on these documents will change the course of American history or be displaced by the voice of protest of the American people.

[Slothrope]

1. I agree. Make the resolutions binding...

...and show the county the Dems mean business.

Non-binding resolutions are so...so...milquetoast.