My last daily post will be on an event from my past……
As a Viet vet I am always interested in anything pertaining to that war…..oh sorry….police action…….I read that our SecDef has just celebrated the 50th anniversary of that conflict…..
Really? In 1950 the US started supplying the South Vietnam government with military advisers and in 1962 JFK started increasing the amount of US troops assigned to South Vietnam…..this should have been either the 66th anniversary or the 54th anniversary…..2016 is a bit off.
A horrible war but from all the anguish and death what did we learn from the experience?
Last week Defense Secretary Ashton Carter laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington in commemoration of the “50th anniversary” of that war. The date is confusing, as the war started earlier and ended far later than 1966. But the Vietnam War at 50 commemoration presents a good opportunity to reflect on the […]
Source: Vietnam War at 50: Have We Learned Nothing? – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
One last time….What Did We Learn?
One more thing….Dear Bureaucrats— either get it right or shut the f*ck up!
Very good story from Ron Paul. That dude, or his son, should really run for President one day. But he’s not exactly right. “They” didn’t learn the obvious lessons of the war. But they did learn a few things.
They learned a fuck of a lot of money can be made from an endless, un-winable, war. They learned that the political price to be paid for a long, pointless, expensive, war with a long trail of bodies is minimal….even if they lose it. They also learned how to lie better & make better propaganda.
Yes, there was a decades-long “hangover effect” of being adverse to war amongst most non-sociopaths who were alive during Vietnam. Unfortunately, most hawks today (and the population in general) aren’t nearly as non-sociopathic as they used to be.
We learned the cash lesson with WW1…..we supplied warring factions and made money and it has snowballed ever since.
Chuq, thanks for the link to this article. Well written, and full of “we learned nothings.” The think that stands out, in my memory, was the daily tally of lives lost, spouted by all the news reporters every evening on the TV. Disgusting.
And that is why the military controls the info reporters can get….we will NEVER see a TV war again. We learned how divisive that can be….chuq