In what universe was the Vietnam War “reckoned with”? Kennedy was most popular after The Bay of Pigs disaster. The entire Cold War fits the mold of what the aut

In what universe was the Vietnam War “reckoned with”? Kennedy was most popular after The Bay of Pigs disaster. The entire Cold War fits the mold of what the author describes here — projecting our worldview on regional conflicts that could care less about our concerns at the time (Capitalism vs. Communism), complete with an inflated sense of trust in those we backed. Hell, in the war between Ethiopia and Somalia a bizarre series of events led to each side supporting the troops the other side had originally trained. Has nostalgia actually reached the point where we romanticize previously accepted embarrassing failures? If you want to give off an air of sophisticated Student of History, and go on about the “Before Times,” it doesn’t help to present such an idealized view of recent history. Perhaps your 5th grade history book gave you the false impression that things were more “serious” before, but I invite you to dig a little deeper.