Calley is still living and breathing to this day..without spending all that much time in jail. And..he was convicted of killing 22 people.
Stupidity, apparently, had nothing to do with the act of breathing.
And approving of the murder and gang rape of children is just disgusting.
Absolutely and utterly disgusting.
It seems that the deaths of the 22 innocents weighs heavily on your sensibilites....
...and in that connection:
1. In the scholarly The Black Book of Communism, Stephane Courtois, et. al. calculate (p. 572) that the Communists immediately shipped between
200,000 and a million to reeducation camps out of a population of 20 million. Execution numbered about
65,000 not counting those who died slowly in the camps.
a. The new Communist Vietnam caused
hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to flee their homes, with over
800,000 taking to the high seas in tiny boats. Commentary magazine, Who Won Vietnam?, May 1994.
And yet you and Jane Fonda stand shoulder to shoulder with these beasts.
I haven't seen this much twisting since you gave birth to yourself.
That's also part of what America brought about. And the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
I find it the utmost hypocrisy that you're ilk goes on happily pointing out mass deaths in places like Turkey, Russia and China..yet constantly poo-poohs any notion this country ever did anything wrong..unless it has to do with Abortion.
I see, you embrace the entire gamut of liberal politics, from soup to left-wing nuts.
Not only is your ignorance boundless, but you have no trouble exposing same to the world.
I have noticed that this lack of shame is a hallmark of the left.
1. Early on, the liberal establishment was still in Cold War mode. This, from the
NYTimes in 1961: "Communist aggression" against South Vietnam that had been "launched as a calculated and deliberate operation by the Communist leaders of the North" and ended with the admonition that "Free World forces. . . still have a chance in South Vietnam, and every effort should be made to save the situation." And as late as 1965: Vietnam is a legitimate part of the (U.S.) global commitment .. . perhaps one of only five or six nations of the world that is truly vital to U.S. interests.
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a.
NYTimes: "No one except a few pacifists here and the North Vietnamese and Chinese Communists are asking for a precipitate withdrawal.
Virtually all Americans understand that we must stay in South Vietnam at least for the near future. Johnson, A History of the American People, p. 81.
Next...
for those who are intellectually as lazy as you are, i.e., can't tear themselves away from the Xbox to borror a library card, the attempt to blame the United States for every evil is based on Leftist propaganda and far, far from the truth:
The North Vietmanese expanded the war, and the North Vietnamese formed the Khmer Rouge years before the United States attempted to save South Vietnam.
2. In the movie The Killing Fields, based on William Shawcross' "Sideshow," the first half leaves one with the impression that the United States was ultimately to blame for the fate that befell Cambodia by bringing Cambodia into the Indochina war, destroying its neutralilty, and bombing to the extent that it drove the Khmer Rouge to the horrors that developed. The actuality is that it was
North Vietnam that widened the war, not the United States. It was before 1965 that Hanoi created the Khmer Rouge (as early as WWII) and the Pathet Lao (mid 50s) with the goal of conquering all of Indochina for communism.
Now, follow closely- you may wish to use a pencil and paper if you're not too good in math...
"...before 1965 that
Hanoi created the Khmer Rouge (as early as
WWII) and the Pathet Lao (
mid 50s)..."
Should I wait for your apology???
I thought not.
Unlike you, who get your information from movies, and accept same as Gospel, Shawcross learned and repented. He apologized to the United States.
Still waiting.
a. In Sideshow, William Shawcross claims that the 1970 bombings caused the coup in which Prince Sihanouk was by Lon Nol. But this adumbrates the issues, as Sihanouk attempted to be too clever, allowing the Vietnamese to invade his country, and then telling Kissinger he could bomb them.
b. The
North Vietnamese were getting support from the Soviet Union and China, determined to support wars of national liberation.
c.
In 1994, Shawcross acknowledged his error: Those of us who opposed the American war in Indochina
should be extremely humble in the face of the appalling aftermath: a form of
genocide in Cambodia and horrific
tyranny in both Vietnam and Laos. Looking back on my own coverage for The Sunday Times...,I think I concentrated too easily on the corruption and incompetence of the South Vietnamese and their American allies, was too ignorant of the inhuman Hanoi regime, and far too willing to believe that a victory by the Communists would provide a better future. But after the Communist victory came the refugees to Thailand and the floods of boat people desperately seeking to escape the Cambodian killing fields and the Vietnamese gulags. Their eloquent testimony should have put paid to all illusions.
William Shawcross - writer and broadcaster, UK : official personal website
In summary, the problem is not so much that you are dumb and live to slander this great nation, but that you have no desire to learn.
