Saturday, February 23, 2013
reading now -Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
(c) 2013 by Nick Turse
Two people that were close to me were directly affected by the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese refugee and a US Marine who fought over there then.
Update 8:13 pm. I'm pretty sure after reading 4 chapters tonight that I'm going to have nightmares. I'm also pretty sure that the Laotian kid that was so full of hatred that I met at Job Corps in the 80's may have had a reason for that if he ever experienced anything lke I'm reading now.
It's fair, though, and doesn't throw scorn at the people caught up in the war on either side. That is reserved for the dingle-berries who thought the war was a good idea, and those who ordered stupid things from air-conditioned offices in Vietnam and D.C.
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Nunya,
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Spot on. At least in the dark ages of pathetic crusades (XIth - XIIIth centuries) the assholes kings who thought it was a good and wholesome christian thing to go massacre Muslims had the guts to lead their armies.
Nowadays the asshole presidents and other heads of states are such cowards they sit in their cosy mansions & palaces at home and send millions of dudes and dudettes to get slaughtered.
you can bet that if the Hitlers, PolPots, Stalins, Bushs and other mass murderers did what their XIIth century ancestors did and got their stinking asses in the battle field (and at THE HEAD of the column), there would NEVER have been WWI, WWII, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Algeria, etc etc etc.
And it's not just the heads of states; the same can be said about generals, admirals and other big knobs in the military. do you see any of them at the head of their men on the battlefield? Fuck no! Fuck that for a joke!
I agree with you my dear :)
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