The surveillance tools being used today far exceed what was used even in the 60's.
Oh, but our government had giving small pox blankets to Native Americans, or syphilis to African Americans or rounding up Asians and putting them 'segregated camps'.
That American History class may not be a bad idea. Just sayin.
There is a platitude of terrible wars that the US has partaken in through the years. At least Bush's war started with 5000+ US Citizens dying. The war of our generation was the first American blood spilled on American Soil since Pearl Harbor.
Osama Bin Laden was the first successful attack on New York City by a foreign entity since the War of 1812. Keep that in mind.
The legitimacy of Bush's war is far more than any of the other massive mistakes of foreign policy the US has done over the recent decades.
Come on, the US actually has had its best run of Foreign Policy in decades, mostly because US Citizens these past few years are actually keenly aware of US mistakes abroad. In the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s, US Citizens routinely ignored American aggression worldwide.
As bad as Obama's / Bush's wars were, they didn't drop Agent Orange across a country and poison the population for decades to come.
>>> The surveillance tools being used today far exceed what was used even in the 60's.
Compare COINTELPRO, which allowed warrantless surveillance against American Citizens for decades before being disassembled in the 80s.
Contrast that with the NSA leaks, which are about metadata collection.