NOBODY talks about the millions killed by the USG and the French in Indochina, CB?
A paragraph from David Harris book on the Vietnam War. Published by
gasp, New York Times Books, a division of another big, mainstream
publisher.
>..."While it may be an accurate conclusion, calling the war a mistake
is the functional equivalent of calling water wet or dirt dirty. ...
In this particular "mistake," at least 3 million people died, only
58,000 of whom were Americans. These 3 million people died crushed in
the mud, riddled with shrapnel, hurled out of helicopters, impaled on
sharpened bamboo, obliterated in carpets of explosives dropped from
bombers flying so high they could only be heard and never seen (talk
about cowards!) they died reduced to chunks by one or more land mines,
finished off by a round through the temple or a bayonet in the throat,
consumed by sizzling phorphorous, burned alive with jellied gasoline,
strung up by their thumbs, starved in cages, executed after watching
their babies die, trapped on the barbed wire calling for their
mothers. They died while trying to kill, they died while trying to
kill no one, they died heroes, they died villains, they died at
random, they died most often when someone who had no idea who they
were killed them under the orders of someone who had even less idea
than that. ... All 3 million died in pain, often so intense that death
was a relief. This war was about us. We made it happen. It was ours.
And, even at this late date, any genuine reckoning on our part must
include assuming the full responsibility of that ownership. Nothing
less will do."
Thank you John Thornton for the post on your kid's school teacher...I can bend the stick a bit too much...in reaction to those that bend even harder the other way.
Since I spastically posted 16 times in 3 days, just 1 today.
-- Michael Pugliese