You, Master Rall, either suffer from a hyperinflated ego or are inured by a consumptive cynicism. You blaspheme the service of more than 8,000,000 Americans who served honorably in Vietnam. As I read your warped diatribe, it occurs to me you are among the children we fought for in the steaming undergrowth of Southeast Asia and the frozen wastes of North Korea, not to mention the sands and deprivations of Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

July 19, 2008

No More War Resolutions Years ago, I had a couple of hours with the current Republican nominee for president. At that time, RADM 'Junior' McCain, whom I'd known for some time, asked me if I'd give his son, LT John S. McCain, III, a lift on my flight from Norfolk to Glenview, Ill. I wish I could have five minutes of that three-hour flight to seek his pledge on a paramount national security issue. ...more

July 5, 2008