"We just can’t impose our will on others” is that a "leftist message"? About that pride, watch the documentary "Winter Soldier" and see for yourself from the mouths of the proud soldieres who fought...
My own views on the Vietnam war haven't changed much in the intervening half-century, since my assignment in Vietnam with Special Forces, but I am called, today, a "revisionist" by some who have never served our country. I have subsequently learned, thanks in part to Burns's history, that a "revisionist" is anyone who opposes the Communist Party line, so I guess I can live with that. Many of my fellow veterans have succumbed to a constant din of false history. Burns's documentary film series includes an Air Force general proclaiming that he thought we were fighting on the wrong side. The view from a cockpit at several thousand feet must have been very different from that on the ground.
When the Vietnam War was over, everyone was relieved it was over, but we did not anticipate the travesties imposed by the North Vietnamese that were about to happen. Nevertheless, the flag was still flying. America was still America the beautiful. But we had lost, no matter how hard we tried to put a good face on it. Those little guys in the jungle took us down. It hurt then, and it still hurts, especially when seeing the way South Vietnam was treated with millions persecuted, and then the killing fields of Cambodia where death in the name of communism rained down under the auspices of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. The domino theory that was scoffed at by the Left during the War proved to be at least partially correct as Indochina (Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) went communist.
In Burns’ series on the Vietnam War, the image of the flag remains a unifying symbol, a ray of hope. It had been there for the former captives to remind them that their country had not abandoned them. No ignoramuses with shoulder pads, millions in the bank, and mile high chips on their shoulders can change the fact that love of the flag sustained our POWs and our troops until 1973, and eventually brought them home.
But here is the important part, the part nobody remembers now: ending the war didn’t matter to the communist agitators who screamed at legless 21-year olds returning from Saigon. It didn’t matter because those agitators were not anti-war: they were pro-communist warmongers rooting for communist victory abroad and at home.
This important history is now willfully denied. Mere mocking is enough to shut down discussion of it in the worlds of education, the media, and politics. Even conservative pundits and politicians dumbly grandstand against “McCarthyism,” as if there never was a real and powerful communist movement in America, let alone one now.
Sutton Vo, a former major in South Vietnam’s army engineering corps, watched the series but has told friends and family not to do so. The film is “pure propaganda,” he said.
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actually it was the fault of France...in large part.
Hmmm... for their colonialism, perhaps, but the Democrats own losing it.
no doubt..but the french got us into it.
one of them damn treaties..
"We just can’t impose our will on others” is that a "leftist message"? About that pride, watch the documentary "Winter Soldier" and see for yourself from the mouths of the proud soldieres who fought...
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The tragedy of the PBS-Ken Burns version of the Vietnam WarOf course it is. The very point of war is to impose your will upon others. There is no other reason to invoke it.
Source: Spitting on veterans, taking the knee
Sounds like some South Vietnamese were not amused, either:
Veterans angry, disappointed following PBS’ Vietnam War documentary
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