Andy: And, the real question, what did the Vietnamese die for? Or
maybe a better question, why did we kill them?
Answer: An abstraction. The abstraction announced by JFK of
"standing up to communism," of "demonstrating American warfighting
capacity to the communists." Other lethal abstractions include
"money" and "God."
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