Ukraine: Retaliation good, a peace plan even better

But any nuclear option must be prevented at all cost

Throughout the entire time I spent in Southeast Asia for The New York Times at the end of the wars in Indochina a half century ago, I often wondered why the North Vietnamese, the Khmer Rouge, even the Pathet Lao, in all their years battling the United States, never attacked the American homeland. When B-52 bombers were unleashing their horrors—7.5 milli…