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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (8181)	9/6/2004 11:52:41 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

As far as I am concerned, all the North Vietnamese "propaganda" (if ever it could be dubbed as such) amounted to nothing more than saying:- "We are fighting for the sovereignty of our country. We are fighting for our freedom! We don't want foreigners to occupy our country and lord over us. France came in and exploited us and shamefully stole our wealth and treasures. No more foreigner thieves and thugs and robbers! We have been enjoying civilization long before the west became civilized. We are fighting for our dignity as free human beings." And fought they did with great determination, courage and resourcefulness never before seen by western troops and their generals. Indeed the Vietnamese had been fighting ever since they overcame the French in the celebrated battle of Dien Bien-Phu in 1954. To be charitable, let me say that America might have been sincere in its intentions. But, to be sure, America was misguided. Prez Johnson (who "had the largest ears outside of a donkey") was too mulish to listen to the voices of reason and moderation. He thought Vietnam was a "pushover" and concocted the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (7th Aug 1964) to escalate the war and finish off the Vietnamese commie menace once and for all. Instead, he started a 10-year nightmare. By 1968, Senator Cabot Lodge was asked to float a trial balloon for peace! But peace did not come until 1975. In the interim period, Americans were lied to daily that the war would come to an end soon. What did the Vietnam War teach America? It showed that America's anti-Communist policy, as it applied to Vietnam, was flawed. The "Domino Theory" (which postulated that if Vietnam fell into the Communist camp, then each SE Asian country would fall in short order to the Communists) proved to be baseless and a figment of the imagination. It betrayed America's morbid fear of Communism. Nixon was forced by the truth and reality to abandon John Foster-Dulles' concept of China as the "Yellow Peril." Nixon went on a a historic visit to Chairman Mao for the beginning of rapprochement and detente with the Chinese. Since then, lotsa American businessmen have been flocking over to kiss ass to secure low-cost contracts for this and that. And Clinton gave the former "Yellow Peril" Jiang Zhe-Min a red carpet welcome! The so-called "Yellow Peril" as conceived by arrogant, presumptuous, self-righteous and cocksure Americans turned out to be no peril at all. Today China, by supplying low-cost but decent quality goods, has been making a vital contribution in keeping inflation in America low thereby helping to postpone America's day of reckoning from its mounting humongous debts. What price arrogance, presumptuousness, prejudice, self-righteousness and skullduggery?