"IN ORDER TO SAVE THE TOWN, WE HAD TO DESTROY IT"

G.O.P. officials, this past weekend, blithely insist that cutting the funding of the Medicaid program by almost $1 Trillion, will save the program.  In a similar way, during the Vietnam war, we had to destroy Ben Tre, a small town, in order to save it from the Viet Cong, and we need only look at the outcome of that war, to see the wisdom in their position.