Waked this morning by a phonecall from my old friend and co-author Jean W., who wanted to talk about the Viet Nam War:

I talked for twenty minutes or so till my voice failed:  "Evil, genocidal, utterly avoidable military adventure, perpetrated by the stupid, greedy, cowardly and malicious villains who then, as now, rule the world, Viet Nam was not the United States' first great orgy of cruelty, murder and destruction.  There had been the Korean War--the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, Operazione Gladio, the CIA's bombing of Guatemala...many, many crimes and horrors that we (and the French) visited on the world after World War II.  And, come to think of it, what was Wilson's intervention in World War I if it was not a fucking, bald-faced war crime?"