Opinion | The Lessons of Two Failed Wars: Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq

Opinion | The Lessons of Two Failed Wars: Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq: In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770. Judt found his book’s title in the first words of this couplet:Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a preyWhere wealth accumulates, and men decay | By Andrew Bacevich