re: #108 No Malarkey!

Just goes to show what a senseless tragedy the Vietnam War was. We should never have helped shore up the French in Indochina after WWII and supported decolonialization, but the US was obsessed with the notion that there was a unified communist bloc seeking to conquer the world that had to be fervently opposed everywhere.

Three words:

John Foster Douglas

(edit thanks Jay C)

John Foster Dulles