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NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Vietnam and America’s war culture If you go to the Wikipedia page that gives a timeline of US foreign military operations between 1775 and 2010, you are likely to come away in shock. It seems that ever since the founding of the country, the United States has been at war. It is as if Americans just could not (and still cannot) sit still, but had to (and still have to) force themselves on others through military action. Often this is aimed at controlling foreign resources, thus forcing upon others the consequences of their own capitalist avarice. At other times the violence is spurred on by an ideology that confuses US interests with civilisation and freedom. Only very rarely is Washington out there on the side of the angels. Regardless, the bottom line seems ...