India, May 3 -- As America marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, the silence speaks volumes. The war was not an error in tactics, but a deliberate projection of imperial violence cloaked in moral pretence

their arrogance, miscalculation, oversimplification, and chronic inability to conscientiously accept that protecting the rights of others and respecting their will is not an act of benevolence, but a prerequisite for securing peace at home.

This is the true crisis that has plagued the United States throughout its history - a moral affliction that has morphed into a habitual performance of impunity, a praxis of political nihilism. It has become almost diabolical in its predictability.

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