America's Next Unwinnable War
America’s unwise, unwarranted, and sadly unwinnable war in Afghanistan—hastily initiated and then abandoned for Iraq by President Barack Obama’s ideologically blinded predecessor and dumped into Obama’s lap in the worst possible way—is beginning increasingly to smell like the 1964-68 war in South Vietnam that swallowed up the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Full Story »
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Sorensen might have added that a nuified Vietnam posed not threat to US national security and that the entire war was a murderous squandering of millions of lives and what would today be trillions of dollars.