![]() ![]() Not because we were not exceptional, but because now we seem to have ceased believing it. But we thought America was exceptional-after all, we were fighting for freedom and not imperialism-but perhaps we were mistaken. The Leathernecks fought tenaciously at Khe Sanh and thwarted the North Vietnamese ambition of winning another Dien Bien Phu, the catastrophic French defeat that marked the beginning of the end of her empire and status as a world power. Nothing has happened to alter that impression it now seems prescient. In early 1968 during the Vietnam War, this writer remembers reflecting that the high tide of America's greatness might extend a few thousand meters outside the western wire of the Marine Corps Khe Sanh Combat Base, then under attack, and if we ever retreated from there our nation's decline might become inexorable.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |