Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda: Remember the famous photo of a South Vietnamese police captain executing a Viet Cong guerrilla, which turned public sentiment against the war?

American Thinker ^ | 03/06/2023 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally and the importance of abandoning that country to the communists?

Here's the Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photo that was supposed to prick our consciences and make us turn against that "immoral" war against a communist takeover:

There's no doubt about it, the photo is hard to look at. It's crude, rough, wartime justice, a picture of South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguyễn Ngọc Loan coldly executing Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. The film is even harder to look at.

It ran on the front page of the New York Times, cropped from the original to fill the space and make its impact even more immediate.

And it got the results the anti-war left wanted: Public sentiment abruptly turned against the war as a result of this photo. The Vietnamese people abandoned by the Americans whose cut-and-run evacuation from the Saigon embassy rooftop was only recently bested by Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout. After that, the reeducation camps rolled in, the boat people launched into the high seas, and the killing fields of Cambodia began.

Jane Fonda must have been so proud of herself.

Just one problem, though: The context was missing and that context mattered.

The guy who got shot, who went by the nom de guerre of Bay Lop, was a death squad psychopath in the Viet Cong who just got done massacring 34 innocent people.

[circlecity]

“Were there hammerless .38s back then?”

yes

[5th MEB]

YET!

Just leave it to democrat politicians,

Civil War—democrat war

WW-1 democrat war

WW-2—democrat war

Korea—democrat war

Viet Nam—democrat war

Bosnia—democrat war

Of course the same thing can be said of republican politicians.

So in this case we will just call it even, they are ALL DEEP STATE WARS!

[Mean Daddy]

Yet. Remember, Kennedy sent “advisers” to Vietnam.

[Skid289]

Not yet. Just wait, it WILL happen.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Not yet. Just wait, it WILL happen.

And when will that be?

[Midwesterner53]

He is just one of the notable people with blood on his hands.