Posted on 08/16/2021 3:03:53 PM PDT by RandFan
Trump deserves enormous credit for ending the war in Afghanistan something Barack “surge” Obama couldn’t do as he was a useful puppet to the Military Industrial Complex.
President Trump had the courage to negotiate with the Taliban and agreed a deal to get all troops out by the end of 2020 only for the neocons like Liz Cheney teaming up with Democrats in the House to stop it and punt it until well into 2021 (i.e now).
To the tough guy neocons on both sides: Accept this. To the generals who don’t have a clue and think every country wants a Western style democracy (or Republic?) Wake up and stop doing the bidding of the Military Industrial Complex. Your treachery and lies will be revealed in good time.
This is a great day and victory for taxpayers. Tens of billions of dollars will no longer be shipped to that sh*thole every year.
With this war ended a vast gravy train has also ended and no more blood and treasure will be spilt in this godforsaken land (of ours at least).
Every cloud ….
You seem to be clinging (almost desperately) to an outdated neo-liberal world view.
If the 1956 election to unify Vietnam had been allowed to take place as required by the Geneva Accords, Ho Chi Minh would have been elected President of the entire country, and the Communist insurgency that followed could have been avoided.
Instead, the gangster Ngo Dinh Diem with his Western puppet masters and rigged referendums would not allow the agreed to democratic process to move forward...knowing that given the chance the Vietnamese people would freely choose Ho Chi Minh.
So much for Vietnam being "the cornerstone of the Free World in Southeast Asia", as it was characterized by the junior Senator from Massachusetts at the time.
Of course Diem himself was disposed of via assassination/coup seven years later by the same folks that put him into power...as was Kennedy.
Go figure.
It was no mere coincidence (imo) that Ho managed extended visits to the cities that birthed both the French and American revolutions.
Ho Chi Minh terrorized the North with forced collectivization and religious persecution from the beginning and simutaneously infiltrating the south with Viet Minh cadres who became the Viet Cong. The Vietcong and the NVA operating in the south were the "gangsters".
The elections were not held because the communists wouldn't let the south alone to decide for themselves: a little difficult with assassinations, terror bombings and raids going on.
Who the South picked and how their government functioned was their choice, not yours or Kennedy's. The point was that the communists would not allow any choice to be made - it was war from the moment the French decamped.
Bozos like you helped the enemy along throughout our war. You and people like you backed the trips to Hanoi (and Moscow and Beijing) to coordinate the "protests". You and people like you planned, scheduled, and provided logistics for mass demonstrations to cripple our support during our war. You and those like you carried the enemy's flag in our streets and chanted that the "NLF is going to win" - all while me and thousand with me, suffered the heat, the rains, the gunfire and mines and lost lives and parts of our bodies.
You were and are traitors.
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