[blam]

"BJ Clinton buried the hatchet with North Vietnam for exactly this access to cheap labor. Since then, I don’t understand how people enlist in the military outside of the purely economic reasons. We don’t even pretend these conflicts have any purpose beyond a decade or two."

Yup. Since the US government is now Communist it does not seem to matter much.

[kearnyirish2]

That’s true.

The warning signs were when we abandoned former right-wing allies to their fates after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Saddam, Pinochet, Noriega, etc. were repaid for their support with our later indifference.