[redfreedom]

The Vietnam War and less often the Korean War have been lumped together with modern endless neocon wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine as a part of the military industrial complex get rich operation.

The military industrial complex may have been a part of the mix in the Vietnam War, but a greater component was the fight against communism. Patton knew the USSR was evil, had he been turned lose today’s issues with Red China and our own internal communist problems would not exist. The same applies to MacArthur in the Korean war.

The Vietnam War was also to fight communism. The anti war effort mentioned in the article played a major effort in turning Americans against the war as well as continued propaganda through the years getting people to believe it was both an unjust war and militarily lost.

It was not militarily lost, rather militarily successful enough to get the Paris Peace Accord (treaty) that ended the war. The North disregarded the treaty and invaded the South again. The war was lost when Ted Kennedy led the effort to defund the South and the South literally ran out of gas and bullets and had to surrender.

That was our last effort to end communism. To the contrary we let it flourish in our universities as well as send most of our manufacturing abilities to Red China, our sworn enemy, so we could buy all their goods so they could upgrade their military to a modern communist threat all over the world.

[Erik Latranyi]

Patton knew the USSR was evil, had he been turned lose today’s issues with Red China and our own internal communist problems would not exist. The same applies to MacArthur in the Korean war.

Just as they will not allow Netanyahu to totally decimate Hamas.

They need these pockets of evil to justify the trillions they are skimming from taxpayers.

[ansel12]

Few realize how the older Americans felt about getting into war in Vietnam.

[hinckley buzzard]

Correct. Observers who didn’t live through it have no perspective on the importance of the Cold War. It is routinely ignored by latter day intellectuals, even though it was the defining foreign policy context for almost fifty years. Nothing which happened on the international stage from 1945 to 1992 can be fully understood without the Cold War lens. The fight for the universities, part of Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions,” was a battle of the Cold War— one which we lost.