Posted on 05/18/2016 11:00:13 AM PDT by mainestategop
Ironically I was having a discussion this morning about Franco, Pinochet and Diem with two of my employees as to whether or not it was right to support them and other dictators simply for being anti-communist. After watching this movie, we all agreed it was for the best.
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What horrid people.
Idiots. High octane stupidity.
Diem? Ngo Dinh Diem is in a category of one. There was nobody else like him. In spite of his faults he was so much better a person than JFK who plotted in the oval office to have him overthrown and murdered because he would not play ball the way JFK wanted him to play ball.
Kennedy was busy with his affairs from Mafia mistresses to LSD proponents and after having Diem killed he was assassinated just three weeks later.
These kids go to college and are taught ‘re-written history and think that those that lived through it are uneducated and stupid.
I spent Christmas with some survivors of the Armenian genocide and I wish some of these Muslim “religion of peace” sympathizers could hear their tearful stories.
Diem was trying to impose Catholicism on a country that was still primarily Buddhist, it’s no wonder that the South Vietnamese government was never particularly popular and that folks weren’t particularly motivated to fight for it.
The only great tragedy of the McCarty era was that Joe was a grandstanding nitwit whose over the top antics helped to discredit his cause and create a moral defense for socialists to play on the minds of shallow thinkers.
The nation would be a lot better off if he’d been comparatively dull and we kept our proverbial feet on the necks of nitwits like in the video.
People like that should be UNEMPLOYABLE, and certainly kept out of any position of Trust.
The way I heard it was that the Viet Cong thugs were being supported by the Buddhists, so sure - he may have dealt harshly with their support group. He wasn't trying to impose Catholicism, he was trying to survive.
And yes, JFK should never have allowed the 'hit'. Never the great leader of 'Camelot' that the Media created.
Why did he not bring up the socialist paradise of Venezuela?
No one should be unemployable. Deport their a**es to China where they can live out productive marxist lives in a sweat shop compound. That’ll teach them.
Yes if only he hadn't attacked the Buddhist majority, outlaw elections completely instead of just banning communists and allow kleptocrats into the government. South Vietnam could've won the war without American intervention.
A friend of mine showed me a news report of a Vietcong propaganda film that featured the leaders of the Vietcong and 4 American advisors they captured in 1963. They showed the leaders of the Vietcong, all with names I can't spell or pronounce. One was a member of some sect, the other a Buddhist, the other WAS a Roman Catholic.
I heard the same thing that Buddhists were helping the Vietcong but I have a hard time equating that since the reds were atheists and since Buddhists were being slaughtered by Mao especially in Tibet.
“...attacked the Buddhist majority, outlaw elections completely...”
That is the history according to JFK legacy makers. The truth is quite different.
“...attacked the Buddhist majority, outlaw elections completely...”
That is the history according to JFK legacy makers. The truth is quite different.
Why would a plurality of Buddhists support the Communists?
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn,s Gulag Archipelago should be required reading for high school seniors and college freshman.
It is in Russia today.
I’ve noticed among my 30-something adult ‘children’s’ friends, those whose families immigrated from Eastern Europe are the conservataives, while those whose families come from other corners of the globe are, inevitably, ‘progressive.’ And the latter, of course, want to assure that the US becomes just like the homeland.
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