Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
The defense of West Germany during the Cold War posed some dreadful moral dilemmas. It reminds me a bit of that town in Vietnam where the officer said, "We had to destroy it to save it." The area in which I live was much ravaged during the Civil War but it has been a long time since there was a land war on American soil.
Yes, we've been blessed by geography, and would do well to remember that more often.