This op-ed piece is terrific in its simplicity of straight-forward thought, as well as being highly useful on a social scale, for the next time one finds oneself being told by a Republican, in defense of Bush, "Well, heck, it's not as if Bush is responsible for $4.00+ at the pump," it is now safe to reply, "Oh, but it IS W's fault." I personally always felt a nagging suspicion that this was somewhat true, particularly when Venezuelans are paying something like l5 cents at the pump,while our Mr. Too-Good-For-Them-'Zuelans refuses to speak or do buiness with them. It's as though my neighbor has access to all the courtside Lakers tickets I could want, but I'm ticked off that he borrowed my rake and bent it, so I act as though I don't want those tickets. Sour oil. I am not sure that I agree with Mr. Scheer that Vietnam was as much for profit as it was an attempt to get the recession of l965 recalibrated via a wartime economy. I won't belabor the point, though; he may be right and I was perhaps too busy worrying about my older brother's friends returning as heroin addicts and in need of psychiatric care. Then it was my friends whose lives had the opportunity to be ruined.At home, it consumed college campuses to the extent that classes were regularly cancelled in lieu of demonstrations against the war. Fraternities and sororiies were begging for members; nobody dated they simply met at the rally. I missed a huge chunk of the college experience that others enjoyed in better times. Scheer makes a good comparison with Vietnam overall, but it isn't compltely even necessary, at this point. 69% of America wants it over with now. Aware of the financial burden, feeling grievous over the loss of lives and limbs, the country has been made to "holler and throw up both its hands." Yet, as McCain reminded us today, "it isn't important when the troops come home." Sigh. If this isn't Bush III, I don't know what is. I believe this article intrinsic, too, for the subliminal point of view that the world isn't blaming Americans; it detests our leader's way of dealing with them.