Flashbacks
The war with Iran brings back flashbacks to the Vietnam War of the sixties and early seventies especially with talk of a draft. I felt the Vietnam War was an unjust war. We called it Johnson’s War. My feelings about this war are the same. I’m an idealist if I think there would be no more wars. This war has kept me up at nights. I feel this is a war of diversion to take our minds off the Epstein Files. I felt the Vietnam War was to take our minds off the failed policies of Johnson. He started it because he wanted to keep the Gulf of Tonkin safe for Lady Birds shipping lanes. No war today is localized. The Strait of Hormuz needs to stay open for oil shipments. But today many of those oil takers go to China and Russia. It’s not our responsibility. But the oil market is world wide with prices being controlled by the world market. And like Vietnam many are wondering how we get out of it. I...