Body Count

I’ve been watching the Ken Burns documentary on Vietnam, and trying not to be completely overcome by shell shock.  I lived through the era, but now seeing twelve or more years of folly and slaughter condensed into 10 episodes of television, is something like having 10 bad acid flashbacks in a row while being repeatedly walloped by a baseball bat. I keep having to remind myself that things have got better in the years since.  We may still be involved in endless war, but we’re not spending near...