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THE RIGHT LESSONS TO LEARN FROM VIET NAM
YGTBSM: This piece could only be written by someone not in Southeast Asia in 1960-1975! As I was stationed in Vietnam and later in Thailand for a total of three years (36 months), I find the implied message here, "Peace with Honor" just as repulsive as I find Shawcross and Rodman, neither of whom one assumed carried a rifle into harms way intentionally, both having trouble disconnecting from the Beltway Tit.
This crap is very simple: as George Ball said, call it a victory and leave - let history sort it out.
We unfortunately have a country which cannot collectively keep its pecker in its pants, always eager to inflict some version of "freedom" and "democracy" on some other sovereign countries, serially and in tandem. It is authors like these, and the "proprietor" that have not the depth to understand the problem is very simple and construct chimera, false threads, fairy tales, vague theories -- that is what self professed public intellectuals do. LEAVE, 45 days to clear Iraq into Syria, Kuwait, etc. as waystations to the US, forthwith. Leave the equipment and let them settle their own scores. Quit constructing blowback after blowback.
Quit excoriating the so-called left. The right has brought us the most corrupt, criminal, incompetent and venal regime since Caligula or Nero, six years of it, and reconstruction of civil liberties alone will take 10 years. The bastard mafia now in power came and shat upon what it did not break and maul from courts to congress. And, it did it intentionally. We need to get about cutting throats here in the US, mostly regressive right-wing reactionary throats, most in the Republican Party and its fellow travelers. We have seen the rightwing future and it does not work, nor is it moral, of any value whatsoever or viable. So, stop speaking about what you know nothing of.
I am retired military, been in combat, worked my ass for the Army, paid my taxes and then saw the country, and my tax money, overtaken by madmen and madwomen intent on some absolutely insane mission from their gawd with their hair on fire. To sit here and read this makes me understand just how the fish rots from the head down, until it has reached the likes of you all. A corrupt government, and there is no denying that certainly (denial is not a river in Egypt as you think) qualifies you all for the looney bin. I am not left, I damned sure am not right, I damned well am for GOOD GOVERNMENT by people who are not too DAMNED smart. To hell with public intellectuals with their nostrums and snake oil,
their slick presentations, their fronting for corporations who give them sustenance. They all contributed to this nightmare in Iraq, the result of which was evident in 2002 when the MSM would not publish any warnings from those of who had walked these paths.Now, suddenly, it is Iraq's fault and problem. Well, I be damned, the propaganda machine is working overtime again and again. We dont have the right to dispose of Iraq since we never had the right or duty to invade yet another sovereign country, for perhaps the 9th or 10th time in 120 years (starting with Hawaii in the late 1800s) with disasterous results worldwide. And, just for fun, I do wish someone would take Kissinger to the world court and string him up. If he dies first, decapitate him body, tear it into quarters and send them to the furthers ends of the earth (like Cromwell), and put his head to rot on a lamp post infront of the White House.
What tripe. You are really ready to continue to kill both Iraquis and Americans just for some damned ethereal ideal which you cannot even express in the English language. Get over it. It is done. We have many more important, no urgent issues to address.
Other than that, I do not feel strongly.
Comment Posted By wafranklin On 10.06.2007 @ 09:02
