The biggest political irony today is that the generations who protested and opposed the Vietnam War, decried the industrial establishment, called for accelerated social change, and extolled popular democracy are now upset because it appears that their stated aspirations have been realized. They don't like what they say they wanted, and it's driving them crazy. As mishandled as Vietnam was, and as in all wars, the casualties were far too great for the effort made, the  underlying purpose to prevent malignant, aggressive communism from growing was the correct intention, and it was fulfilled less than a score of years later with the failure of the Soviet Union and the adoption of a market economy by most Marxist or socialist states.  The hitherto U.S. industrial-technological establishment has been driven to globalize to avoid punitive taxation and regulation, valid and overdue social change has been compromised by...(Read Full Post)