diverted the resources it required to the other war, in Vietnam.

This is a war that has been fought by troops out of hometowns, from the ranks of the National Guard and Reserves.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

This looks like a real war zone to me. Thirty years ago, I was in Vietnam, and I haven't seen such devastation since then,