An excellent piece. I do think, however, that you underestimate the effect the war in Vietnam had on the American public. We are less and less warlike than we were and as our domestic problems increase and require solutions our taste for war will decrease further. Classically nations go to war when they have to unify their country in the face of domestic disunity. I hope this will not be the pattern here. Of course it may.
An excellent piece. I do think, however, that you underestimate the effect the war in Vietnam had on the American public. We are less and less warlike than we were and as our domestic problems increase and require solutions our taste for war will decrease further. Classically nations go to war when they have to unify their country in the face of domestic disunity. I hope this will not be the pattern here. Of course it may.