As Daniel Ellsberg said, about Vietnam: “We were not just on the wrong side of this war, we were the wrong side.”
We had no business there. It was all because of propaganda, fear of the boogie man communism, and the fault of mindless and ambitious career building in the military and the government.
It was a waste of 58,000 American lives and three million Vietnamese. Our government was scared witless that Vietnam would go communist. Guess what? They did, and now they are our trading partner and ally.
All those lives ruined, for nothing. How sad. The question now is this: Have we learned anything?
I doubt it. Sometimes I think the real heroes are those who refuse to fight.
Here is a link to a movie listing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277434/
And to the movie:
http://www.solarmovie.eu/watch-we-were-soldiers-2002.html
And to some info about Daniel Ellsberg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
As Plato said, "It is only the dead who have seen the end of war."
There are still war mongers in this country, in 2012. Beware them. Especially those who have never been to war themselves.
-- Roger
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© 2012, Roger R. Angle
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