An Unanswered Question Today

[H2O Man]

“Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, ' the first President to lose a war.' And we are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
John Kerry, statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1971


Those of my generation remember the news reports on John Kerry's haunting questions, at a time when it was obvious that the Vietnam war was a mistake. When a criminal in the White House would rather send American youth to kill or be killed than admit defeat. I keep thinking about it as I watch media reports on the increasing violence in the Middle East.