Walton thought about America and her wars, and believed more and more with each passing day, that ultimately, many of the interventions upon which the service was sent were little more than militarized missionary work on behalf of the Carpetbagger Caste, bringing to the far corners of the earth a dose of That Old Time Secular Religion whether anybody actually wanted it or not. With gallows humor, he imagined that somewhere out there was an op-order with words typed in red ink saying, “Go yea therefore unto all the world, preaching and teaching, baptizing them in the name of Democracy,
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