Melanie Morgan: Vietnam déjà vu
Left Wing Academia is attempting to revise history in order to validate anti-war stupidity in the present. You have got to read this.
Melanie Morgan writing for WorldNetDaily exposes the reality by writing a sample of Vietnam Vet response to a book by Left Wing Associate Professor Jerry Lembke of Holy Cross College in Worcester, (where else) Massachusetts.
Vets call in to Morgan’s co-hosted radio show broadcast from San Francisco telling heart breaking stories of how they were treated returning to the nation that is home of the free and land of the brave.
Comments
For those that would rather revise than learn from history, it is apparently never too early to set about its rewriting. Right-wing hawks are already explaining away the error of making war in Iraq as they have done for the one in Vietnam. Their account intends to shift responsibility for the Iraqi blunder away from George W. Bush and his Republican enablers and onto those that understand the folly of it all. How so?
Revisionists are determined practitioners of Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda technique of telling a lie over and over until it becomes an unchallenged version of history. Their portrayal of the Vietnam War as a cut-and-run disgrace is a good example. The revisionist’s telling and retelling starts with dissembling the reason for our entry in and withdrawal from Vietnam, and begs the question as to the lesson to be learned.
The confabulators insist that our exit from the Vietnam War was an avoidable defeat that damaged our nation’s vital interests. They blame the loss on those that saw the war from its start to have been an unnecessary, life wasting, resource squandering, and reputation damaging blunder made worse by continued bullheadedness. Perchance this sounds familiar?
Though reason would suggest that victory or defeat in any war should be measured in terms of why it is waged, those that have revised the history of the Vietnam War avoid mentioning its purpose. Our entry into Vietnam was supposed to block the advance of communism as foretold by the Domino Theory. What’s the latest explanation for why we launched a war on Iraq?
The Domino Theory , that led us into Vietnam, contended that if a former Southeast Asian imperial possession were to become communist there would be a step-by-step advance of this doctrine across the South Pacific right to the shores of God only knew where. So when the French had their disaster at Dien Bien Phu and pulled out of South Vietnam we went in to stop the dominoes from falling.
In portraying defeat as being at the heart of the Vietnam debacle, revisionists disregard the real and historic fact that we left and the dominoes never fell, an indication that we need not have gone into Vietnam in the first place. Thus, the mistake was not in getting out, but in ever getting in. Might we now be staying in Iraq to avoid getting out?
Liberals lie. Not just a little, but a lot!
Hello, Dominoe theory is Dominoe reality in Southeast Asia: North Vietnam conquered non-Communist (yet corrupt) South Viet Nam, then Communism proceeded to envelope Laos and Cambodia. That is dominoe reality! Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk was deposed by the Pol Pot Communist regime that went on to murder millions of its educated citizens. Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia managed to keep out Communism (there was a real threat in Indonesia).
Leftie revisionists are CURRENTLY revising history to say Vietnam Vets were not spit and publicly reviled by the Left. That is a LIE.
To believe the dominoes did not fall in Southeast Asia is a LIE.
To believe we did not abandon South Vietnam is a LIE.
Bad tactics (fighting to not lose rather than to win) lost Vietnam. Supporting a corrupt South Vietnamese government fell into the Viet Cong propaganda and the South Viets that did support America fled or were executed.
Why? Because Lefties did not and do not have the stomach to win.