The Mandalorian Finale, Vietnam, and Cheetos
Don’t worry — no spoilers
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4 min readDec 18, 2020
Lately, I have been reading some of Henry Kissenger’s memoirs — don’t worry we’ll get to the Mandalorian in a second; I’m setting the mood. Most of them discuss how American Exceptionalism was twisted over time. This bastardization of Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy led us into the morass that was the Vietnam War (seriously, stick with me: Mando…