Excellent article. The same sort of claptrap that Steyn refers to is constantly spouted here amongst my academic colleagues. After listening to this mob prattle on with such idiocy about world affairs for six years since 9/11, I have had to conclude that they are actually insane.
On this theme of Vietnam, I also recently enjoyed reading:
"The Left Shudders And Bush leads by William Kristol
"Like a pig in muck, the left loves to wallow in Vietnam. But only in their "Vietnam." Not in the real Vietnam war....Between 1 and 2 million Cambodians were murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the next three years. Next door, tens of thousands of Vietnamese were killed, and many more imprisoned. Hundreds of thousands braved the South China Sea to reach freedom."