Netflix has a new series on the Vietnam War, called Turning Point: The Vietnam War.
That's all we need, more Leftist propaganda blaming the United States and its allies for trying to help the poor South Vietnamese nation fight attempted Communist takeover of their country.
And what really hurts one's soul, to a Vietnam veteran (like I am), there are Vietnam veterans that give witnesses for those kind of Leftist documentaries that benefit the Communist strategy against the United States and their actions in Vietnam when all wars contain atrocities, done on BOTH sides, and the Communist North Vietnamese did some of the worse atrocities upon its own citizens that one would think not Ho was in charge in the North, but that Joseph Stalin and his execution platoons had risen from the dead in Hanoi.
Remember one of the main policies of Communist Socialism. "The end justifies the means." In case one doesn't understand that, it means whatever... the Communists do, they believe is justified by their reaching their ultimate goal of World Socialism. If that involves slaughtering whole villages, children and babies included, which they did in South Vietnam, or terrorist bomb attacks even upon their own people, as they did regularly in Saigon and other South Vietnamese cities, or their western agents even infiltrating American college campuses to trick its students to riot against the war and even fly the North Vietnamese flag at their rallies, then those things are all just 'means' to the end goal, and not important to them, except as extortion to scare the weaker peoples to bend to their Leftist policies.
If you really want to learn what Communist philosophy is about, I suggest reading ex-FBI agent Cleon Skousen's 1958 book, The Naked Communist. He doesn't cover what most do, like little high points that really aren't high points at all, but covers the actual meat of what Communist theory is about, and the many atrocities it has committed even upon its own peoples during its quest for takeover.
On The Vietnam War:
I was not a 'ground pounder', or 'grunt', what we in the military called an infantry soldier. I was a crew chief in the USAF on B-52D bombers stationed at Guam, which was on an island near Japan. U.S. B-52's would perform missions in Vietnam from U.S. bases like Guam, Thailand, Okinawa, etc.
My understanding of why the U.S. was in Vietnam back then was like any young G.I. who had a desire to serve their country. My father was a U.S. WWII combat Marine, and I had great-grandfathers that served in the War Between The States, and in the American Revolution. So I had a little bit of military style upbringing, but really not that much. Instead, I watched the Vietnam War on TV, and that made me decide to volunteer. I went into the USAF late in the war, as soon as I graduated High School, so I had plenty of time to see what U.S. troops were having to go through, even by the major TV news outlets that propagandized the war.
Having returned to the U.S. after serving in the USAF for several years overseas after Vietnam, like many vets I began to look deeper into reasons why the U.S. was really there in Vietnam, looking kind of for the 'big picture'. It took many years before I began to understand, and becoming a Christian certainly helped in that understanding.
The U.S., especially in its own hemisphere, has had a policy for a long time in helping its neighbor countries that want a stable, civilized, and productive environment. Sometimes the U.S. has had to send in the U.S. Marines to quell some of the uprisings in poorer countries in our own western hemisphere. Doing that isn't really a power-control issue by the U.S., even though there will always exist the Machiavelli type politicians in all governments of the world. It was more about helping the poor people that were suffering in those countries, and that were experiencing atrocities by those who sought power using force.
Can the Christian nations justify their helping poorer countries to fight power-hungry tyrants that don't care about the people, and instead oust those wicked leaders and instead help those peoples to create a stable and productive country? Yes, the Christian nations CAN... justify doing that to help the poor and downtrodden in other nations. But there will always be the talebearer among us that will stir up ignorant peoples everywhere. And God is against the talebearer (Leviticus 19). Even today with what President Trump is doing for the poorer nations, the talebearers instead choose to stir political hatred against him with their power-hungry themes and anti-God rhetoric. The Communists are masters at the art of talebearing, stirring up strife and falsehoods among the people to get them to riot, making it easier to take over a poorer nation. That's why the U.S. and its allies were in Vietnam, to help the people of South Vietnam fight the Communist north who were trying force a takeover. Same thing happened in Korea.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and Russia's Perestroika democratization programs designed to ease up on using capitalist economic principles in the Soviet nations, that is solid proof that Communist-Socialist philosophy does not work economically. Traditionally Russia would threaten attack in some way, and U.S. politicians would always given in, and send Russia economic aid. When the Berlin Wall went down in 1989, we sent them MacDonald's and Pizza Hut. And western big business was happy... to send business their way. Yet the Kremlin policy toward World Communist-Socialism still never changed. To this day, they are still in power over Russia and its people, even while we do business with them. And not only they, but also Communist countries like Vietnam and Cambodia. World leaders today, globalists, still believe in a New World Order, even to include those Communist nations, considering they will eventually bend and break from their Communist-Socialist policies. They are correct somewhat, because one of the policies of Communism is peaceful takeover, little by little, and only if that does not work then their policy is to use force. What many do not see is that those globalists, many of them wealthy living in the West, are also Socialists. Thus World Socialism is actually now the goal of hidden Communist policy. And Lenin did say that, "Communism is socialism."
I had almost enlisted in the U.S. Marines, was going to follow my father's footsteps. He talked me out of it, and an uncle who retired from the USAF talked me into choosing the Air Force instead. I thank God I did that, because I feel for my fellow veterans who fought on the ground during the Vietnam war, because of what they went through. So I understand feelings they may have had against the Vietnam war after they returned to U.S., especially with having to experience all the Leftist propaganda college student age peoples were dishing out on us, like spitting on us coming in from overseas at U.S. airports, and their parading anti-war signs and Communist propaganda. If you hung out with anyone your own age that wasn't a Vet, you had to compromise with the Leftist influenced gals if you wanted a date. The Communist propaganda in large American cities was that strong in that era. Riots in the streets would even happen between the older working men and Leftist influenced teenagers and college students and their Communist Party USA propaganda agents.
Some Black leaders in the southeastern U.S. that had become members of the Communist Party USA came out of their programs leaving the Party and admitted the Communists were trying to recruit the Black peoples living in the South to riot, thinking they could create a Communist territory in the South that would takeover the rest of the nation. What tactic did they use against the Blacks? Talebearer tactics, like, "you know them White peoples don't really care anything about you Blacks, and that they want to belittle and destroy you", etc., etc., etc.
The hardest thing to realize for those in my era and type of Christian upbringing, kind of like Ozzie and Harriet mode, innocent and trusting, but deceived, is how since the idea of 'collectivism' started with the French Revolution, and then took off with Communism in 1917 Russia, is how there were hidden spies for the Communists existing within the U.S. government. It took me years to understand this. I'll give you an example. President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 mentioned the phrase New Word Order in his speech. He was a Socialist. And his right-hand man, advisor at the White House that had an office next to his was Col. Mandell House, a known world Socialist who favored a one world government. When Congress voted to not join the League of Nations (start of U.N.) in Wilson's era, Mandell House was emotionally downtrodden by it, and wrote a book called Philip Drew: Administrator, which was all about moving towards a one world government. The establishing of a "one world government" is still in politician's hands in Washington to this day. Is Trump on that plan? I don't think so, because that plan means the U.S. and all nations, have to give up a lot of their sovereignty. Trump appears to be bringing back a lot of U.S. sovereignty that previous presidents have caused with their GATT and NAFTA and CAFTA treaties, and Trump is rejecting certain little Leftist factions supported by the United Nations organization that specifically exists to bring all nations under a one world government.
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That's all we need, more Leftist propaganda blaming the United States and its allies for trying to help the poor South Vietnamese nation fight attempted Communist takeover of their country.
And what really hurts one's soul, to a Vietnam veteran (like I am), there are Vietnam veterans that give witnesses for those kind of Leftist documentaries that benefit the Communist strategy against the United States and their actions in Vietnam when all wars contain atrocities, done on BOTH sides, and the Communist North Vietnamese did some of the worse atrocities upon its own citizens that one would think not Ho was in charge in the North, but that Joseph Stalin and his execution platoons had risen from the dead in Hanoi.
Remember one of the main policies of Communist Socialism. "The end justifies the means." In case one doesn't understand that, it means whatever... the Communists do, they believe is justified by their reaching their ultimate goal of World Socialism. If that involves slaughtering whole villages, children and babies included, which they did in South Vietnam, or terrorist bomb attacks even upon their own people, as they did regularly in Saigon and other South Vietnamese cities, or their western agents even infiltrating American college campuses to trick its students to riot against the war and even fly the North Vietnamese flag at their rallies, then those things are all just 'means' to the end goal, and not important to them, except as extortion to scare the weaker peoples to bend to their Leftist policies.
If you really want to learn what Communist philosophy is about, I suggest reading ex-FBI agent Cleon Skousen's 1958 book, The Naked Communist. He doesn't cover what most do, like little high points that really aren't high points at all, but covers the actual meat of what Communist theory is about, and the many atrocities it has committed even upon its own peoples during its quest for takeover.
On The Vietnam War:
I was not a 'ground pounder', or 'grunt', what we in the military called an infantry soldier. I was a crew chief in the USAF on B-52D bombers stationed at Guam, which was on an island near Japan. U.S. B-52's would perform missions in Vietnam from U.S. bases like Guam, Thailand, Okinawa, etc.
My understanding of why the U.S. was in Vietnam back then was like any young G.I. who had a desire to serve their country. My father was a U.S. WWII combat Marine, and I had great-grandfathers that served in the War Between The States, and in the American Revolution. So I had a little bit of military style upbringing, but really not that much. Instead, I watched the Vietnam War on TV, and that made me decide to volunteer. I went into the USAF late in the war, as soon as I graduated High School, so I had plenty of time to see what U.S. troops were having to go through, even by the major TV news outlets that propagandized the war.
Having returned to the U.S. after serving in the USAF for several years overseas after Vietnam, like many vets I began to look deeper into reasons why the U.S. was really there in Vietnam, looking kind of for the 'big picture'. It took many years before I began to understand, and becoming a Christian certainly helped in that understanding.
The U.S., especially in its own hemisphere, has had a policy for a long time in helping its neighbor countries that want a stable, civilized, and productive environment. Sometimes the U.S. has had to send in the U.S. Marines to quell some of the uprisings in poorer countries in our own western hemisphere. Doing that isn't really a power-control issue by the U.S., even though there will always exist the Machiavelli type politicians in all governments of the world. It was more about helping the poor people that were suffering in those countries, and that were experiencing atrocities by those who sought power using force.
Can the Christian nations justify their helping poorer countries to fight power-hungry tyrants that don't care about the people, and instead oust those wicked leaders and instead help those peoples to create a stable and productive country? Yes, the Christian nations CAN... justify doing that to help the poor and downtrodden in other nations. But there will always be the talebearer among us that will stir up ignorant peoples everywhere. And God is against the talebearer (Leviticus 19). Even today with what President Trump is doing for the poorer nations, the talebearers instead choose to stir political hatred against him with their power-hungry themes and anti-God rhetoric. The Communists are masters at the art of talebearing, stirring up strife and falsehoods among the people to get them to riot, making it easier to take over a poorer nation. That's why the U.S. and its allies were in Vietnam, to help the people of South Vietnam fight the Communist north who were trying force a takeover. Same thing happened in Korea.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and Russia's Perestroika democratization programs designed to ease up on using capitalist economic principles in the Soviet nations, that is solid proof that Communist-Socialist philosophy does not work economically. Traditionally Russia would threaten attack in some way, and U.S. politicians would always given in, and send Russia economic aid. When the Berlin Wall went down in 1989, we sent them MacDonald's and Pizza Hut. And western big business was happy... to send business their way. Yet the Kremlin policy toward World Communist-Socialism still never changed. To this day, they are still in power over Russia and its people, even while we do business with them. And not only they, but also Communist countries like Vietnam and Cambodia. World leaders today, globalists, still believe in a New World Order, even to include those Communist nations, considering they will eventually bend and break from their Communist-Socialist policies. They are correct somewhat, because one of the policies of Communism is peaceful takeover, little by little, and only if that does not work then their policy is to use force. What many do not see is that those globalists, many of them wealthy living in the West, are also Socialists. Thus World Socialism is actually now the goal of hidden Communist policy. And Lenin did say that, "Communism is socialism."
I had almost enlisted in the U.S. Marines, was going to follow my father's footsteps. He talked me out of it, and an uncle who retired from the USAF talked me into choosing the Air Force instead. I thank God I did that, because I feel for my fellow veterans who fought on the ground during the Vietnam war, because of what they went through. So I understand feelings they may have had against the Vietnam war after they returned to U.S., especially with having to experience all the Leftist propaganda college student age peoples were dishing out on us, like spitting on us coming in from overseas at U.S. airports, and their parading anti-war signs and Communist propaganda. If you hung out with anyone your own age that wasn't a Vet, you had to compromise with the Leftist influenced gals if you wanted a date. The Communist propaganda in large American cities was that strong in that era. Riots in the streets would even happen between the older working men and Leftist influenced teenagers and college students and their Communist Party USA propaganda agents.
Some Black leaders in the southeastern U.S. that had become members of the Communist Party USA came out of their programs leaving the Party and admitted the Communists were trying to recruit the Black peoples living in the South to riot, thinking they could create a Communist territory in the South that would takeover the rest of the nation. What tactic did they use against the Blacks? Talebearer tactics, like, "you know them White peoples don't really care anything about you Blacks, and that they want to belittle and destroy you", etc., etc., etc.
The hardest thing to realize for those in my era and type of Christian upbringing, kind of like Ozzie and Harriet mode, innocent and trusting, but deceived, is how since the idea of 'collectivism' started with the French Revolution, and then took off with Communism in 1917 Russia, is how there were hidden spies for the Communists existing within the U.S. government. It took me years to understand this. I'll give you an example. President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 mentioned the phrase New Word Order in his speech. He was a Socialist. And his right-hand man, advisor at the White House that had an office next to his was Col. Mandell House, a known world Socialist who favored a one world government. When Congress voted to not join the League of Nations (start of U.N.) in Wilson's era, Mandell House was emotionally downtrodden by it, and wrote a book called Philip Drew: Administrator, which was all about moving towards a one world government. The establishing of a "one world government" is still in politician's hands in Washington to this day. Is Trump on that plan? I don't think so, because that plan means the U.S. and all nations, have to give up a lot of their sovereignty. Trump appears to be bringing back a lot of U.S. sovereignty that previous presidents have caused with their GATT and NAFTA and CAFTA treaties, and Trump is rejecting certain little Leftist factions supported by the United Nations organization that specifically exists to bring all nations under a one world government.
(Continued...)