#42. Subotai Bahadur

My father was in the US Army for twenty years. He fought in actual combat both in WWII and Korea. He was not a “liberal” by any means, but he was against the Vietnam war, or at least he got to be that way. Why?

His reaction was: don’t go to war unless you intend to win it, and then go full throttle. Anything less is treating the soldiers as disposable pieces of trash. He didn’t think we were trying to win in Vietnam, therefore we shouldn’t have gotten involved at all.