Janice, how is the USA "allowing itself to become a better nation"? Is it simply by putting more and more of its population in prison, even though it already has a higher ratio of people imprisoned than any country on earth (and by a fantastic margin)? But then, what else can you do if you are going to have people living in abject destitution right beside others who live in obscene wealth? (GOP policy of course is to allow the gap to widen.)

But to stay within the context of this thread, in what way is the America of Junior, who wants to wage war for family glory, better than the America of Dwight D Eisenhower, to which I referred earlier (when I was making the point that in 1956 Ike pressured the British and French to abandon a madcap assault on Egypt)?