Reply #15: last questions...well i guess these are more like plot holes...

[Blue_Tires]

1. WHY would Dr. Manhattan help Nixon win Vietnam? Aside from the Comedian, none of the Watchmen seemed overly patriotic, and they ALL had to know how dirty Nixon was (especially the so-called 'smartest man in the world') -- So why do all his dirty work?

2. WHY all the conservative angst in the midst of a five-term Nixon reign? I'd thought his rule and the totalitarian beatdown given to hippies and leftists (including assassinations abroad) would have kept right wingers happy...But Rosarch sounds as resentful as Travis Bickle stuck in traffic at a combination May Day/Black Panther/Gay Pride/Mardi Gras parade...and why is there a RW neo-nazi publication smack dab in the middle of New York of all places?

3. WHY didn't Dr. Manhattan stop the shooting of the Vietnamese girl? I'm thinking it's some kind of allegory about God indifferently standing by while atrocities happen, but that's all I can come up with -- I did notice a very agnostic/atheist theme running through the entire plot...

4. The biggest hole: Knowing what we know about Nixon, Kissinger, and his other military advisors, WHY was Ozy so sure that Nixon would call for peace after the New York disaster instead of using it as justification for a pre-emptive strike?? Remember, he was just a turn of the key of a pre-emptive strike even before the disaster...And don't tell me Kissinger and the war hawks on the Joint Chiefs wouldn't have pressed Nixon for war anyway...