Originally Posted by host

Are our leaders really too stupid to have learned enough of the lessons of the US experience in Vietnam, to avoid repeating the errors and the consequences? Brent Bozell's "man of the century", Ronald Reagan, made the lessons vanish when he pronounced Vietnam, a "noble war", and so, these assholes who got us into another one, just like it.....will have to figure out how many more of our soldiers have to die, so that our soldiers who have already died there, won't have died for nothing. Maybe allowing the media to televise the dead, returning in flag draped coffins to the Dover AFB military
mortuary, might be the way to drive the point of the pointlessness of all of illegal war, "home" to the children of the folks who didn't even "get it", after 58,000 coffins came home from Vietnam.