> the villains were Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush,
> Clinton, & their military and foreign-policy advisors. The last 10 years
> would have been exactly the same had Strauss never been born.
Seems you could as easily say the last 10 years would have been the same if Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, & their military and foreign-policy advisors had never been born.