Consequences of Failure

The author of The Betrayal assesses the effects of the Vietnam War—on our government, our military establishment, on our economy, and on ourselves. In the historical evolution of the American people there have been four major crises, each of which we either surmounted out of our own spiritual and physical resources or were rescued from by virtue of outside events: the birth of a viable government in 1789, slavery and the trauma of ending it, the moral obligation of membership in the League ...