Still a great essay from the Colonel. The debacle that was Viet Nam is less an indictment of war than an indictment of the way that particular non-war was defined and prosecuted. Even a casual review of world history will tell you that sustained peace is not normal unless a superpower oversees things.
Consider this. A vanishing minority of Americans has any first-hand experience with actual war. No living Americans except some immigrants have any experience living through war their own back yard. Thanks to two big oceans, relatively peaceful neighbors north and south, and a half-century American age of relative world peace, the vast majority of fat, lazy, cell-phone addicted Americans are clueless when it comes to the depths of evil in the world. But if we continue on the current course, I think they may learn. Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: WILTON via Mercedes > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:02 PM > > THE TRAGEDY AND THE WALL > By Wilton Strickland, Lt Col, USAF (Ret) > > The tragedy of the Vietnam War is exceeded by only slavery and the Civil > War as this nation’s greatest tragedy. Not only were thousands of fine, young > Americans sacrificed needlessly, sent into harm’s way by a government with > no commitment to a resolution to the conflict, the conflict divided the > country like nothing else but the Civil War. > ... _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
