How was it that during Vietnam bad ideas exerted such a perverse influence? Why were those ideas so impervious to challenge? Why, in short, was it so difficult for Americans to recognize bullshit for what it was?
The retired military man, like a modern Thucydides, calls bullshit.
A commentator rebuts: "I think there is a conflation on his part of intellectuals who embrace the idea of societal goals for the benefit of the society with those who are there to just put a rubber stamp on the narrow interests of the military-security-industrial complex."
I agree, but AB's righteously angry letter favors a vernacular we're very fond of here at RBPD, and he does present seldom-heard points overall from ex-military leadership, including the waffling Colin Powell, who said about Iraq, "If you break it you own it," and went ahead and helped smash it to smithereens.
TS
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