How I Began to Teach About the Vietnam War (LONG But Worth It!)

Michigan Quarterly Review. Ann Arbor - From Email | Fall 2004 | Keith W. Taylor

[Jim Robinson]

Great post! I think John O'Neill and the Swift Vets have done more than just preventing an unfit blowhard from obtaining the presidency, they have set the stage for a reevaluation of the false liberal accounts of the Vietnam era and for the truth to come out. And this is important as the liberals and the press are going all out to destroy our chances of success in this war just like they did back then. Unsuccessfully thus far. Thank God!

[Iris7]

Notice what this fellow says that Diem was in a position to put a strong, democratic government in Viet Nam. The Communists were hot as Hell to stop him. So, Diem was killed. And who did the dirty job? John F. Kennedy.

Makes you wonder. The story of Oleg Penkovsky makes you wonder some more. Stories some old timers tell make things seem unexplainable except in one way. Remember that John F.'s Dad Old Joe followed the Russian line about war with Hitler all the way through the War, from September '39 to the end. Stay out of the war, let the Europeans' fight their own wars, England was sure to loose, don't go down with a sinking ship - and then Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. Over night isolationism changed into total war fever. Turns out the Soviets and the Third Reich
were allies until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.

[onedoug]

Could you print this?

[windcliff]

You betcha.

[hershey]

Amazing article.

[onedoug]

Uh...what did the writer do there?

[meema]

Thanks for posting this...it is an excellent article!
I could not stop reading it.