[stop_fascism]

You are so right, and I'm old emough to remember vietnam. Hedges' statement about VN ties as the stupidist statement in a really idiotic screed (ties with every other statement). America was almost destroyed by the aftermath of Vietnam. Jimmy Carter did his best to surrender to any American enemy he could find. He practically invented radical Islam. Many Americans were ready to accept third class status (behind USSR, China and Japan). Then, G_d in his mercy gave us Ronald Reagan. America changed and the world changed. Only a liberal elitist half-wit like Hedges would prefer the pre-Reagan world to this one.

[eddie willers]

Jimmy Carter did his best to surrender to any American enemy he could find.

The one thing Jimmy Carter had right was that there was a general feeling of malaise in the years following Vietnam.

And yes....Ronald Reagan shook us out of the doldrums that Carter could only name.