[rrpjr]

I remember that bloated bit of bathos. That was the only year I actually rooted for somebody in the Oscars – for Daniel Day Lewis to defeat Tom Cruise. He did.

As to Iraq-Vietnam analogy, the only thing this noble war against nihilist death squads in the territory of a deposed tyrant fought by a volunteer army has in common with that noble war 40 years ago against communist revolutionaries fought by a conscripted force is the almost united determination of ignoble politicians, with total disregard to the consequences to our country and to the innocent people in the war zone, to undermine it .