[News With Views] "War is the dumbest thing we humans do," said Captain Chuck Nash, U.S. Navy.
As I sat watching his interview with Shannon Bream, I thought back on my own time trying to survive the Vietnam War. Robert McNamara concocted the Vietnam War out of some insane idea that a country 10,000 miles away needed saving by America. He convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson to go full-out with 500,000 troops, bombers, napalm, Agent Orange, aircraft carriers and more bullets than grains of sand on the beach.
After Boot Camp at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1968, I figured I was a walking dead man. Forced marches, crawling under concertina wire, gas masks in huts filled with mustard gas, crawling along the ground with bomb craters blowing up within feet of me, drill sergeants crawling down my throat, fire watch, 18 hour days, shooting every kind of weapon along with grenade throwing...how do you live through war?
Then, in 1968 Life Magazine published a full issue with the 300 kids that died in Nam in one week. The whole nightmare made me sick to my stomach. The Draft grabbed my college roommate right out of our room and sent him to Nam. He died in a firefight. He’s on the Vietnam Wall in D.C. I cry my eyes out every time I visit. I run my hands over his name and wonder how his life would have been if McNamara hadn’t created the War. Or, if LBJ was bright enough NOT to enter it! Or, if Westmoreland wouldn’t have been such a moron to engage us further into that hell hole.
In the end, 3.3 million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers on both sides died. We lost 58,479 young men. Another 150,000 of our young men suffered from P.T.S.D., horrible injuries and drug addiction. The Vietnam War brought drug addiction to America. All of it for what? What was accomplished? Nothing but death!
| Once the Viet Cong controlled the country, how many did they murder? We know 2.5 million (5% of the population) fled... |
Now, Israel fights for its life. You’ve got a bunch of Hamas Muslim fanatics, in fact, all Muslims are fanatics
| Nonsense. Too many, yes, but not all. |
for Sharia Law and the Qur’an. There’s not another religion on this planet as deadly as Islam. "Convert or kill all non-believers, especially the Jews," commands the Qur’an.
Why the Jews? What’s the beef? What’s the reason?
| Tradition. And the living witness that their vision of the one god is not strong enough to persuade all of those who bound themselves to the original contract. |
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