"And Now, After Sending Our Best Young Men To Die On distant battlefields fighting Communism, we may simply vote a Marxist into our highest office."
23 July 2008
Do you recall the justification that U.S. officials used for sending more than 58,000 American men to their deaths in the Vietnam War? They said that communism was so bad and such an enormous threat to the United States that it was necessary to stop the North Vietnamese communists before they came to the United States and took over the federal government. In fact, even today die-hard anti-communist crusaders, especially conservatives, still claim that those American soldiers were sacrificed in a worthy cause.
Really?
Then would someone please explain this photograph to me? It’s a photograph of U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter passing in review of a military honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Hanoi this week.
Yes, that’s Hanoi, as in (North) Vietnam, the city on which the U.S. government dropped some 20,000 tons of explosives during the Vietnam War.
It’s just my own humble opinion, but that’s just plain disgraceful. A high U.S. government official passing in review of a Vietnamese communist military honor guard? Jane Fonda, call your office.
It gets worse.
And to think that those bad boys lasted about three months against the Chinese army.
ReplyDeleteYou mean in 1979?
DeleteYep. And probably 2016 too!
DeleteChina got humiliated the last time. :)
DeleteGreat article and the truth ain't setting me free - infuriating more than anything.
ReplyDeleteIf agreeable to you, listen to the audio by Wally Butterworth on 'Vietnam'
Scroll to bottom of list of audio's by Butterworth:
http://theendofzion.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/VietnamWar.mp3
I certainly will and thanks.
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