GLASNOST
Gold Member
This reply of yours (if it is meant to be in response to what I've written above) leaves me to believe that your reading comprehension sucks something awful. Too much bull shit eventually becomes nonsense. Do not be astonished if I don't respond to whatever comeback you manage to string together. Have a nice day.I see....if it's 'your country' atrocity is OK---nice ethical position you've carved out for yourself. Good guys and bad guys..are pretty much a matter of perspective.If you can name "Marxists" I can name "Capitalists". If the heat is too much don't light the match.LOL...Capitalism is an economic system...Some of the Vietnamese ..... would have liked to be interviewed about the horrors they endured as prisoners of Capitalist Americans but ... you know .... they're dead....... the horrors he endured as a POW in hands of Marxists
The Capitalist-perpetrated My Lai massacre took the lives of 504 innocent men, women, and children. Among the victims were 182 women - 17 of them pregnant - and 173 children, including 56 infants.
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You're full of shit....stating that the "Capitalists' did anything betrays your politics..just a bit...
What the hell are you talking about? What you are saying amounts to ...The Norths hand were not all that clean either.
1). Litwin: "A was not good"
2). Glasnost: "B was not good either"
3). EvilEyeFleegle: "But A was not good either"
Is it my turn to reply, "B was not good either"? Yeah, good idea then you can say , "A was not good either" then I can say, "B was not good either". Shall we go round and round indefinitely? Your logic is MIA and I don't think you're on track.
1). It was not our country, it was the Vietnamese's country..... My Lai was a war crime...but war...is what it is. I find no value in trading atrocity stories.
2). We were the aggressors, the Vietnamese were not the aggressors.
3). We were the bad guys, the Vietnamese were the good guys.
4). We had no right committing atrocities, the Vietnamese had every right to kill us by any means necessary.
So, you are "trading atrocity stories" yet saying there is "no value in it"....the Russians did the same shit in Afganistan 10 years later....that their atrocities were in the name of Communism did not make them any less than horrible.
1). It was not the Russian's country, it was the Afghani's country.
2). The Russians were the aggressors, the Afghanis were not the aggressors.
3). The Russians were the bad guys, Afghanis were the good guys.
4). The Russians had no right committing atrocities, the Afghanis had every right to kill the Russians by any means necessary.
Yeah...it would appear that you have substituted knee jerk opinion for a cogent and nuanced review of history.
Good guys and bad guys..is the world view of a 6 year old. I did say that the US was wrong..that did not make the US soldier..who was doing his job...a bad guy.
but whatever, your reply to me is full of attempted rhetorical revisionism and very short on actual value..IMO.
BTW...I did not name Marxists..nor would I ever use economics systems in a conversation such as that. Do try to keep up, eh? Yes...the terms you use do indeed betray your political dog in the fight. don't like it/ don't do it.