A Little History
This is an excerpt from Fred Reed’s column "Thoughts on an Interview with General Stanley McChrystal", carried on Lew Rockwell, 02/22/10:
"It gets so tiresome. We are always saving the world from some dread or other, usually unasked. Recently a friend read me a passage from Robert Bork, the very smart, very conservative intellectual who didn’t make the Supreme Court. In it he spoke of the justness and necessity of the war on Vietnam, saying that it was crucial in the effort to stop the spread of communism. Those who opposed the war just didn’t understand the danger.
"We lost the war. What happened? The Soviet Union peacefully went out of existence. Its component "republics" have joined NATO or want to. "Communist" China is a major trading partner. Vietnam, still communist, hosts a big Intel plant. Cambodia is what it always was, a hot and drab little place of no importance. Laos too is green and hot and full of people who remember their fathers being killed by the Americans."
(Ex-Marine Reed is a Vietnam vet.)
posted by Burt @ 9:09 AM
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