No voice of reason could speak loudly enough or clearly enough to dissuade the self-righteous zealots of socialist revolution from their cause du jour. And not at the hands of American imperialist aggressors, but at the hands of their leftist saviors, those blood-red hands of Ho Chi Minh and his saving angels. This is the Age of Apologies. Bill Clinton is apologizing for everything under the sun, except his own philandering. The Roman Church is having lunch with the Eastern Orthodox prelate.
Apology is in the air.
But nobody from the Left is apologizing for Vietnam. In these ecumenical times, the Left's omission must be an oversight. In case you don't know who you are, consider this your invitation. Those of you who are dead are not excused. About a lot of things.