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Was Vietnam A Just War?
10 February 2010Probably not. Why did the US fight the Vietnam War anyway? It seems the belief at the time in the US government was that Communism from China and the USSR threatened to attain power in the country, and if that happened it would cause the rest of the countries of Asia to fall to Communism like dominoes. So the US fought a frivolous war in Vietnam and it cost billions and billions and hundreds of soldiers’ lives, and it lost the war, and Asia never fell to Communism, and history marches on. Like Barbara Tuchman THE MARCH OF FOLLY. Great book. I turn to the Vietnam era in my mind because it was also an era of tremendous popular protest. I myself participated in the protests, even in Washington DC a couple of times. Once I talked myself into the very front of the stage where all the performances were going on, all the speechifying. No matter. People protested the Vietnam War because it was unjust. They raised voices and distributed angry leaflets the whole nine yards. The Vietnam War was the epitome of a cause celebre at the time. People around the world in all the capitols of Europe came out and loudly condemned the war for a whole range of valid reasons.
So why do I think about this now. On the news this evening there was an ugly story about how Michael Oren Israel’s US Ambassador was heckled and harassed in an appearance at some university in California. Some group of ignorant malicious people accused him at the top of their lungs of mass murder and political oppression and the whole nine yards. Just the latest in a whole long series of intolerable outbursts by ignorant malicious people. I don’t begin to understand how such people stand justice and morality on its head in this way. And it’s not just idiotic individuals either. Look at the way the despicable United Nations produced the Goldstone Deceit.
So, without further ado, here is the video:
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