The virtue known as self-restraint was devalued. Certain rules that for a long time had governed behavior also became devalued. Whatever else was going on here, we were lowering the barriers of acceptable political and personal conduct.

What’s that like carpet bombing, use of napalm against a civilian population, water boarding of prisoners, collecting ears or foreskins of dead enemy combatants and Agent Orange?

This is hilarious. It’s like Archie Bunker lives.