“…just like when we lost Vietnam.”

“Lost Vietnam? The Vietnam in southeast Asia?”

“Yeah, the ‘Ten Thousand Day War’ or whatever. You know, Americans getting shot up in the jungles of some shit-hole country so we could stop the spread of communism. Communism that was destined to fail whether we fought it or not.”

“Fuck me. I knew you were stupid, but I guess I had no idea how stupid until now.”

“What do you mean by that old man?”

“We didn’t lose in Vietnam, boy.”

“I’m sorry. I wasn’t aware that democracy had prevailed in that country during our sudden exit.”

“We weren’t there to fight the communist North Vietnamese any more than we were there to spread democracy.”

“A lot of politicians might disagree with you.”

“Just the stupid ones. Vietnam was a show of force. We went and waged a destructive war for the sake of waging a destructive war. We fought it to sustain it, not to win it. We used that jungle to demonstrate the vicious might of the American Army to the Russians. And we did, boy.”