I'd just like to say that it's admirable how you always manage to navigate this meandering whirlpool of off topic drek and keep the thread from being sucked down into the depths of irrelevance, Sydney. I know the hardship involved in attempting to uphold board standards by example with an apparent lack of moderator resolve to do the job in a straightforward manner.

You have a remarkable grasp of the political realities of periods which Roger Waters has hardly written about directly, although I think it's clear he's a pacifist, even to the extent of vilifying the British military command for the hard decisions made during the last rightful armed struggle against totalitarianism.

What you've said about LBJ and Milhouse is historically accurate, but I fear you're being forced to reveal it in an inappropriate context. This is a thread about Roger Waters and what he's commented on as an artist. Corporal Clegg was Roger's only Vietnam era statement about war and was actually a rather clumsy attempt to draw parallels between the struggle to repel a Nazi invasion of Europe and a largely American decision to interfere in political upheaval roughly 8000 miles away from the new continents. It works in that timeframe only as an indictment of the practice of pinning a reward (or not) of ribbon upon those who have made the ultimate sacrifice of life, limb or sanity.

It's kind of prophetic in a sense. The concept of post traumatic stress syndrome, while certainly apparent to military psychiatrists of the time, was not common public knowledge for many years after 1968. Yet Corporal Clegg seems to comment on the phenomenon directly. Could Roger have been projecting profound feelings of loss that empathetically approximated the trauma he imagined his father might have suffered in the final days or moments? Or was it about another WWII veteran he knew?

I know it's a small thing. But it's a much more appropriate area of discussion than redefining Roger's views in the context of Dems vs GOPs of '60s and early '70s when no such stated parallel exists.