You have a valid point. Michel Crozier, in his Le mal américain, made the case that America's decline began with its Vietnam adventure. I should have said that whatever damage Vietnam caused to US hegemony, Bush II's war is much worse.

I am not going to go into the issue of "the break from modernity to post-modernity". In my view, all post-modernity is is the working through of English speaking intellectuals of the fact that the Anglophone world had not actually achieved a feasible realization of modernity.

A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns