IV, question: re-up

[Michael Bailey]

>isn't that where Doc goes "I always admired those who had the balls to
>do that" or something equally placatory (and, like the Mickey Rooney
>looking dude on the golf course, revealing a pro-Vietnam-war attitude
>- or at least an insufficiently correct attitude toward it - which
>shows they didn't read the Pentagon Papers...but neither have I....)

but that is the kind of thing you would say to somebody who went over there,
especially if you were trying to make nice

which is a sort of mis-communication, because hadn't Spike just come
out with "yeah, I was one of them baby killers" or something like
that, indicating he was at least ambivalent about admitting his
involvement in that massive CF

which, most people I've talked to that were there, thought of it as...

but the point for the narrative, methinks, is that Doc feels free to
admit that he admires that level of badassery without needing to
render judgement on the righteousness of the cause
(cf DL in _Viineland_ - "it was the ass-kickin' I was in it for, mostly"