Reply #22: True

[Selatius]

But because of outside meddling by the likes of the French, the Chinese, the Americans, and the Russians, the choice became one of order under tyranny or continued mass destruction and death, and the answer became obvious to many.

It was arrogance and the lust for power and control that led to that episode, not only on America's part but on others as well, and it's apparently the same lust and arrogance that has led us into another meatgrinder in a far away place called Iraq. Our so-called leaders have lost everything learned in Vietnam, and now we're going back to school the hard way.