Weekend self-care open thread: Time to dust off anti-war songs from the 60s and 70s
The Vietnam War was, as the kids say, a clusterfuck of immense proportions. Under four American presidents, the US stumbled into this war in pursuit of preventing the fulfillment of the "Domino Theory," the belief that if the West allowed one nation to fall to Communism, then as sure as night follows day neighboring states would also succumb to the lure of Marxism-Leninism. But, what one has to remember is this: the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and, yes, even Nixon Administrations were staffed by competent, educated men—yes, all men—who got it completely wrong. But that core competence prevented a greater tragedy of the end of the United States. We cannot say that now. Between Donald Trump and his national security cabal, led by Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, this nation is being subjected to something far worse than kakistocracy. These people are the destroyer of worlds. Their incompetence and cravenness is on a scale which few states have voluntarily chosen in the long rec...
