Revisiting the Vietnam War--and the Liberal response.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. The right is adept at using their deaths to question our patriotism.

It has taken me over fifty years to realize that when the right says, "They are fighting for OUR freedoms," they really mean fighting for THEIR right to game the system to maintain their insular white enclaves.

That's why I put the clarification that makes an American soldier's sacrifice one that is consistent with a Constitutional cause. Hence, they died to protect our right to freedom AND EQUALITY. Which is a battle that will still have to be fought on American soil.

And, yes, that's only secondary to the real purpose America has been joining these skirmishes over the years. Usually it's because of the oil. Or it's to provide a carpet-of-bombs inducement to someone to go along or get cluster bombed over some stupid business deal.