http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/vietnamese-derision-once-the-merciless-us-military-economic-empire-collapses/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/vietnamese-derision-once-the-merciless-us-military-economic-empire-collapses/#comment-66917 lichen Wed, 05 May 2010 22:45:13 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=16746#comment-66917 Unfortunately, the Vietnamese “communist” government has long since turned to radical sweatshop capitalism. But yes, anti-communist hatred destroyed their country; the beautiful forests, the hopeful people… If that war was going on today, the media would have allowed Nixon to declare that he had ended the war even with 50,000 troops still there and the bombs raining down on Cambodia etc. daily, just like Obombus.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/vietnamese-derision-once-the-merciless-us-military-economic-empire-collapses/#comment-66909 MichaelKenny Wed, 05 May 2010 17:59:16 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=16746#comment-66909 “One day the American … empire … will fall”. Don’t be so pessimistic! There’s no “one day” about it! It’s falling now and will probably be gone in five years time! The rest of the article is an amusing little example of the “death of American thought”: the way modern Americans simply memorise dogmas and then mouth them mindlessly. Did you know that the French communists refused to take any part in the resistance until Hitler attacked the Soviet Union (Stalin’s orders!) and Maurice Thorez was mobilised but deserted the army (Stalin’s orders!)? As a result, a special deal had to be done with De Gaulle to allow him back into France without his being court-martialed and shot as a deserter in wartime! The French communists were not quite as “heroic” as all that!

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