Good and Evil
The United States is once again experiencing unprecedented growth with low inflation. While General Motors and Delphi are making the headlines, other businesses have been prospering. US Steel, for example, is making historically high profits. The restaurants are packed. Travel is up. Unemployment is at historic lows. Americans truly have much for which to be grateful. Maybe that is why we have our heads in the sand. Since the end of World War II, the United States has enjoyed 60 years of peace and prosperity. That isn’t to say that there haven’t been hot wars re: Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. But large scale conflicts of world proportions have not been experienced by successive generations. Not in any of the above three conflicts have Americans at home been asked to sacrifice anything: not fuel; not sugar; not rubber; not nylon; only American lives in such statistically low numbers that the loss on the general population was barely felt at all. Are 45,000 dead Americans in Vietnam ...