Vietnam War Debates

You might want to look at what happened to the US in Vietnam...

The reason you can find a description of the atrocities committed by the US in Vietnam is that the US lost that war, and Vietnam today is functioning society. If you take the largely comparable Korean war, the non-US perspective is completely absent from the western public conscience. Though with a raising China, that may one day change.

My experience has been different.It was a wildly unpopular war with poor people being sent into a meat grinder.And its the one with the pervasive urban legend about returning soldiers being spat on.Vietnam is still a single-party state run by a self titled Communist Party that follows Marxist teachings while adopting the more modern state-capitalist approach. This is the opposite of American values and the exact outcome the Americans were there to prevent. Although the consequences have

Sounds a lot like Vietnam and the US didn't even win that one

some thoughts on the Viet Nam war.

> It's pretty rich seeing the North call out the US and South foe those tactics - truly the pot calling the kettle black.Let me correct you: it's not "the North". It's called Vietnam and the US waged a war against it (mostly against South Vietnam).Also, it's the world -- we -- who is appalled at the way the US behaved in Vietnam, including its assassination campaigns, Agent Orange, Napalm, mass murder, etc.As for what may have happened, unlike you

Vietnam was the US standing to a foreign power trying to take over. It is not a war on the nation, but a war on an aggressive faction. Same for Korea really.

It’s like the US military explaining their actions during the Vietnam War - “we needed to destroy the city in order to save it”

US doesn't care about freedom in other countries. They may say so, but action say a bit different story - how can they be good friends with places like Saudi Arabia and worse? what they care about is, are you with us or against? any other position is very hard to maintain, albeit possible. you just need a bit extra finance for that.freedom and good life for vietnamese people was not considered much when that war was planned (beginning by staged US Tonkin gulf accident to get a foot in si

I have read the article. The reference to the missing bloodbath was about Vietnam and not about Cambodia. Chomsky was right there. The missing bloodbath was in reference to the reasoning a lot of people in the US used to prolong the war. The theory was that if the US leaves everyone in the south would be massacred, so we must stay for humanitarian reasons. That was wrong, the North Vietnamese did not massacre civilians after they won. Again this has nothing to do with Cambodia.The other stuff