To the Editor:
In 1970 the Vietnam protest song “War,” sung by little-known Edwin Starr, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Some of the prophetic lyrics of the song were: “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing” and “War, it ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker. War, it’s got one friend, and that’s the undertaker.”
For the last 20 years the U.S. has been engaged in wars fought in the Middle East and Asia (Iraq and Afghanistan), and many might say that those same lyrics kind of sum up what we as a…
March 24, 2022
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