Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Shame of the Cities

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
President Lyndon Johnson and the “best and the brightest” who staffed his administration led this country into three quagmires.  By far the most famous, but perhaps not the most expensive and dangerous resulted from LBJ’s escalation of the Vietnam War.  More than 50,000 Americans and many more Vietnamese died as a result of that policy; our country was bitterly divided in ways that still weaken us today, and the economic cost of the war was immense.  It contributed to the wave of inflation that shook the country in the 1970s and in...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/07/06/the_shame_of_the_cities_258757.html

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