(July 25, 2018 at 6:58 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(July 25, 2018 at 6:55 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: The status quo is always advocated on the basis that maintaining it is better than not. How is wartime any different?
Guns, bombs, bullets, napalm, poison gas, etc. I'm not saying Marshall was right, but I do see his point. And Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948, IIRC.
All of those factors played themselves out in Vietnam, yet I'd not be inclined to attribute our failure to such tensions.