innocent victims, with a sustained stream of bombs that we drop from the sky. there is no measure by which the american experience in afghanistan is worse than the american experience in vietnam. but it is particularly american to believe that your personal version of an experience is always the best or the worst, and so for 49-year-olds like ben cyrus, who have never before witnessed the united states being driven out of a country in total military defeat, this must be the worst. good american military did not just terrorize southeast asia for 13 years, with the vietnam war, the american military, and the american government terrified americans, at home, in the vietnam war specially every american boy over 18 years old who had a draft card in his pocket that could get him sent to his death in vietnam, against his will.