"We had to destroy the village in order to save it." The infamous Vietnam era quotation may or may not have been uttered by an anonymous US Army major. It may have been misquoted, revised, apocryphal or invented. But it quickly morphed into an anti-war mantra that reflected attitudes of the time.
For Virginians and others forced to travel the path of "clean, green, renewable, sustainable" energy, it will rebound in modern politics as "We had to destroy the environment in order to save it."
