Lurker:

Yeah, I thought about that after I said it. Then there was Vietnam, with the phony Gulf of Tonkin business, and the Mexican war -- "Polk's War" -- and I don't know what else.

I guess I just wanted to belong to a country that only shot in self- defense.

But we've always had that ideal, haven't we? Or has it all been hypocrisy? Decent people don't kill others because of what they might possibly do, do they?

Maybe I'm just an elderly innocent. Maybe we should go with the folk wisdom:
Why wait for the law? Let's string 'em up now.
Kill 'em all; let God sort 'em out.
If you see a guy walking down the street with a dog following him & carrying a guitar, arrest him. If he ain't done something he's going to.

clint