Kanto gets Real but Impolotik

Kanto raises the inevitable point of the method of massive force, Accords, etc. be damned. He is right to. But, the reality was the US fought habitually, even after knowing it was a lost cause. Without cause, without reason, without hope, it bombed not to win but to sell bombs.

Both the books "Patriots" and "In Retrospect..." (I seem to be the only one on this fucking site that has read "In Retrospect...", by an involved Secretary of Defense; whole lotta word processing going on by second lieuys and armchair generals, trash talk up to here.) chronicle Johnson and McNamara, in the early 1960s, realizing the war with Vietnam was a great big mistake. One gets the strong impression of a military industrial complex, perhaps your job, perhaps mine, running the show, instead of a democracy, instead of a republic.

Arthur Toegemann (c)(p) 2003