The legacy of this war lives on.
There is a great sense of shame among the generation who came of age during this war.
The people sent to re-education camps. The massive escape of the survivors on rickety boats. The Killing Fields.
That shame should have been used. It should have caused a great self-analysis by this generation. The military did go through a huge self-analysis after this war.
But, there was no self-analysis by the press or the entertainment industry or the universities.
There was no self-analysis by the American culture.
So the shame lives on, deeply hidden....highly medicated...expressed in harmful ways.
Vietnam was just one front in the War Against Communism/Tyranny.
The enemy successfully replaced one group of Vietnamese people living in palaces and riding in government limousines with a different group of Vietnamese people living in the palaces and riding in the government limousines.
Wow.
Big change.
We are ahead on points at this time.
I see the Clintons as an example of how this war continues to plague this country.
I give them the benefit of the doubt that they truly believed in communism when they were young. They had the revolutionary fire in their bellies.
Then, they saw how foolish they had been. Communism was just another name for tyranny.
Their foolishness made them angry.
If they couldn’t help people, then they would help themselves.
And they did and do so to this day.
“I see the Clintons as an example of how this war continues to plague this country.
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Their foolishness made them angry.
If they couldn’t help people, then they would help themselves.
And they did and do so to this day.”
Interesting take on the Clintons - hadn’t thought of it that way but I do understand your idea. The primary exception I’d take to this is the Clintons actions are aligned to the actions of the Commie apparatchik with their ZIL autos and country dachas. The Clintons have not left their Commie roots behind. They just shifted where their interests were focused.
I can understand what veterans of WW2 in the Pacific felt about the Japanese. I have no use for Vietnam to this day.