[Sioux-san]

So, why were we involved so deeply? What was Johnson and his left-wing lackys’ end game? WEre they trying to break the American will and bank simultaneously.

[MindBender26]

It was much less worldly than that. They simply wanted to restore a Camelot that never existed and win without hurting anyone. They had no schooling in the military arts, and they backed the very wrong people in SVN.

Remember, this was also the Civil Rights era here in CONUS, and it was very easy for the holdovers from the Kennedy era to think that we were simply “bad people,” and they did.

Shelby Steele and Robert Bork wrote on the issue of America's lost moral imperative 20 years apart.... and they are both right.