2008-2009 is time to stop talking about the immediate post-Vietnam War-era as a malaise or the bad-old days as the religious right has historically tried to do and define it as an era of inequity or as “liberal” lost generation.
It is time to stop the 30-year counter-revolution and occupation of the American mindset by those losers of the Vietnam era who sought to replay the endless wars of old in this 21st Century.
Let’s take up where we left off in 1975 and get a U.S. Congress to tell the security regime to sit and heel when told. Vote all big war spenders out—start with Kansas Senator Pat Robertson.
Let’s be bold and redo our foreign policy and build up both an American economy that is (1) not run-Amok, (2) a domestic policy not ignorant of the masses of poor and long-term under-employed, and (3) a foreign policy that speaks carelessly of bombs and war at all costs rather than negotiating peace, respecting human rights, and real populist & democratic trends and forces on this planet.
We will need such a policy if we are to reduce global warming and learn to work well with other nations for the rest of the century.
