In Vietnam, US soldiers, many of them black, often did not understand why they were fighting. In Iraq, their equivalents were very often Latinos for whom integration into American society – including, for many, the promise of permanent residence or citizenship – was at least as important as toppling Saddam Hussein.
在越南，美军士兵（其中有很多是黑人）常常在还没有弄清战斗意义的情况下就送了命。在伊拉克，遭遇这一命运的是多是拉美裔美国人，对他们来说，融入美国社会——对其中很多人来说，这包括永久定居权或入籍承诺——的重要性至少不亚于推翻萨达姆·侯赛因。