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May 31, 2006
Vietnam War Myths
By word of mouth repetition, by slovenliness about checking facts, by fitting in with ideological propensities, erroneous "facts" may in time become furniture of the mind. Such are that Hitler was elected democratically (he lost both elections in which he ran and "was appointed Chancellor"), or that Stalin killed 20 million (he killed about 43 million). One such erroneous fact is that the Vietnam War was a Civil War.
This idea was very much promoted by the "anti-war" crowd and the Vietnam propagandists, for if true it meant the United States had no business interfering in an internal Vietnamese conflict, and it justified the North's total takeover of South Vietnam in 1975. However, that Vietnam was one country is not historically correct.
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Posted by Rudy at May 31, 2006 5:29 PM
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you all stick on justifying anything to Israel, because of the burden they carried on 60 years ago... and to the US because of their salvific power in I and II WW
your "liberalism" is as narrow-minded as the islamic extremism, or miltant communism.. your position, as well as O.Fallaci's, are not valid in themselves, but just serve as doctrine for the political and ideological justification of US and Israeli hegemony..
Liberty you talk about, is just a new version of Kipling's "burden of the white man".. hiding economic and geopolitical interests of the "right country".. still, "right or wrong, it's my country".. if USA was an evident dictatoriship in itself, you would support any action by them, yet..
Now, the only real difference is: there is one side who publicly admits the will to overthrow the other.. there is the other side that hides this aim, with the justification of "spreading liberty"..
well, you just stay there, you stick on defending your right to drink coke, eat in Mc Donald's, buy your new 50,000$ 4X4, pay aesthetic surgery to your 50 years old wife or 12 years old daughter.. and exploiting the 80% of earth's resources..
I am sure that John Locke would be proud of you..
Posted by: francesco at July 6, 2006 10:38 PM
usa is so gash, i wish australia would stop turning into them
Posted by: usa at October 22, 2006 10:16 PM
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