The more depressing news I read, the more I ask myself:

[Seabiscuit]

how can the wealthiest country on earth, a country with more material and human resources than any country in history, continue to be so crass, crude, ignorant and just plain dumb?

I mean, there are articles out today about families grieving in an Ohio town which is home to the 14 marines killed the other day and not one of the people interviewed had a clue as to why their sons were dead. They'd probably vote for Shrub again if they could, and get their sons killed all over again if they could.

I doubt if any of them even remember Vietnam, because obviously none of them learned a damned thing from Vietnam.