In the increasingly hard-to-remember days of my youth

In the increasingly hard-to-remember days of my youth, the 1960’s and 1970’s (they say that “if you can remember it, you didn’t live it), there were a number of seminal events for those of us who share the sobriquet of the “Baby Boom Generation”: the Kennedy Assassination(s), the murder of Martin Luther King, the Woodstock Music Festival and Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk (worth at least 100 of Michael Jackson’s, I daresay). But the defining michael kors totes, and continuing backdrop for the whole era, that which caused a profound schism in American society and its body politic michael kors totes,, and led to noisy and sometimes violent college campus unrest and the so-called “generation gap” (but, on the other hand, gave us fodder for some excellent music), was the Vietnam War.

So divisive was that War, that nearly 40 years after the fact, we are unable, as a Nation michael kors totes,, to achieve any real consensus on what the object lesson of this failure of U.S. foreign policy really was. Many argue that it was the absence of a plan for an endgame and exit strategy which kept us mired in Southeast Asia. Others maintain vociferously that we should never have been there in the first place; that we were propping up a corrupt regime as part of a misguided and doomed cold war strategy designed to fend off complete Communist domination in that region.

Even today michael kors totes,, people continue to argue whether the debacle of Vietnam proves that the “domino theory” was proven to be fact, or utter nonsense. I remember participating in the very same arguments, in haec verba, in 1969. And this, mind you, is with the benefit of decades of hindsight! So traumatic was that War, that since that time, every time this Country and its leaders have contemplated military action of any kind michael kors totes,, someone, either in political opposition or in the news media inevitably and predictably raises the hackneyed cliché of a question: “but will this become another Vietnam.