[The Urban Sombrero]

The people of Viet Nam were being victimized by Communist Red China, not by the United States or Gen Ewell. It's hard to fight a war with insurgent guerilla forces sent to live in and among the civilian population, but that was our plight, and 'the' plan coming out of the north from the outset. You sidestepped that point earlier so that you could parrot your liberal talking points which as always, make the good guys look like the bad guys.

It's a shame that you would take the side of the Communist propaganda line and excoriate your own countrymen but, that is the way of the liberal. We had some of the most bloodthirsty radical Jihadis incarcerated in Guantanamo, that is until an army of liberal lawyers began suing the Bush Administration to get them released. Theses are the worst of the worst overtaken in the very act of committing war crimes themselves, but no, the ACLU and other enemies of state would not rest. So, between their efforts and the faux indignation of the combined left we began setting this scourge free to work their evil on the world yet again.

The Obama Administration is an extension of this afore mentioned group of rabid liberals who share the view that the US unfairly forces it's will on the rest of the world. They are also quite fond of pointing out how many were released under the Bush Administration in order to justify closing Guantanamo. The administration have therefore, hit overdrive in their efforts to release them all and close down Gitmo. A shuttered Gitmo then, is to become a monument before the eyes of the world, to demonstrate America's new attitude towards intervention, as we moth ball our fleet and pull back our military horns in general. What the armies of the world could have never accomplished in war (taking our freedom), is within sight of actually happening anyway IMHO. This land would never allow a foreign force to take our freedom from us. But it seems that which we would never lose to war, we are none the less poised to just hand over peacefully and knowingly to thugs like Iran. How many more billions are we Americans going to surrender before we vote some of these guys out of office?

They are wrong and you are wrong. We are not the enemy, like salt and light we have preserved and perpetuate peace and safety across the globe. To demonstrate the point one need look no farther than the foment of the Middle East. Where once there was relative 'stability in the region', we now see volcanic unrest and coming war. It is nearly impossible to estimate the hundreds of thousands of people who've died in the Middle East under the watch of the present administration. China has expanded their combined military strength exponentially and is building military islands in the South China Sea, Iran will soon be nuclear, Russia is resurging on a path to regain territory lost at the collapse of the USSR, and NATO is a mere ghost of it's former self as the kingpin which recently gave it the most viability (Turkey) is now in flirtatious Geopolitical reconfiguration with Russia of all people.

"Like salt and light, we have preserved and perpetuate peace and safety across the globe."

But not always, and there's the rub: it seems if one holds up a part for scrutiny, you immediately suggest it is a denunciation of the whole.

I wasn't in Vietnam. I freely admit that. That the enemy hid amongst the populous by day and marauded by night, I understand. To my remembrance, I have nowhere suggested your experience is anything but as you say you found things.

I agree that the United States is often "salt and light," however, we are not immune to the frailty, foible, folly, and desperate wickedness of the human heart. Not as individuals. Not as a people. Not as a Nation. Not as an Armed Services sector.