The Unspeakable Brutality of the U.S. War Against Vietnam Must Never Be Forgotten

“War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing … ”

And this is so true … ‘the terms used by Vietnamese to refer to the U.S. occupiers, invaders and imperialists.’ Have you really seen the world lately? SMH …

The book, Kill Anything That Moves: the real American war in Vietnam by Nick Turse seems to state the continued American strategy and policy!!

United States Hypocrisy

With last year’s documentary series by renowned American director Ken Burns, titled The Vietnam War, having recently wrapped up airing on PBS, the Vietnam War is currently all the rage among American history buffs these days. It’s a war with a legacy that is more hotly contested than any other American war (probably more than the Civil War), thanks in no small part to propaganda put out by the Pentagon and other government agencies in the past few years which seeks to portray the war as one fought for a noble cause, if only it had not been executed the way that it was. The Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary promotes the liberal narrative that has been pieced together over the past five decades which holds that “the military conflict in Vietnam was thus a Civil War, and U.S. military involvement in support of the South was…

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