Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
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