01 May 2008
You Kill Me
It’s unbelievable that there still are apologists for antinationalist warfare in keeping with the domino theory. In his essay in the May 1, 2008, Wall Street Journal, “Democrats and the Killing Fields,” Arthur Herman appears to attribute every foreign policy event that has been inimical to American interests over the past thirty years to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
The U.S. should have learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union that it was enough to maintain our own economic and technological strength to protect our security against the perceived threat from a fruitless ideology. Shedding our own blood and that of the population of invaded countries was unnecessary and even counterproductive. Alas, the Iraq invasion is illustration that we have not learned that lesson. Nor has Mr. Herman.
It’s unbelievable that there still are apologists for antinationalist warfare in keeping with the domino theory. In his essay in the May 1, 2008, Wall Street Journal, “Democrats and the Killing Fields,” Arthur Herman appears to attribute every foreign policy event that has been inimical to American interests over the past thirty years to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
The U.S. should have learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union that it was enough to maintain our own economic and technological strength to protect our security against the perceived threat from a fruitless ideology. Shedding our own blood and that of the population of invaded countries was unnecessary and even counterproductive. Alas, the Iraq invasion is illustration that we have not learned that lesson. Nor has Mr. Herman.
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