THE BIG PICTURE: Vietnam, 35 years later

www.boston.com ^ | May 7, 2010

[Dallas59]

Then 35 years of brutal communist rule, that made the War seem like a picnic.

[ALPAPilot]

The Vietnam War and America's involvement in it affected the lives of millions for well over a decade, exacting a massive human cost with millions of deaths and countless injuries - both physical and mental - that plague many of those involved to this day.

Brought to you exclusively by the Democrats.

[wally_bert]

Democrats - leading the way in human misery and senseless waste.

[DJ Taylor]

Memories light the corners of my mind...

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/30/captured-a-look-back-at-the-vietnam-war-on-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-saigon-2/

[Wildbill22]

Exactly. Why were “boat people” forced to board barely floating junks and risk the high sea in the hopes of finding a good hearted US ship to save them? Why would they leave by the millions? The media should have focused on that question, and the answer would have been as brutal as the “killing fields” of Cambodia, only they couldn’t blame the US on the brutalities that followed the end of South Viet Nam.

[Wildbill22]

Exactly. Why were “boat people” forced to board barely floating junks and risk the high sea in the hopes of finding a good hearted US ship to save them? Why would they leave by the millions? The media should have focused on that question, and the answer would have been as brutal as the “killing fields” of Cambodia, only they couldn’t blame the US on the brutalities that followed the end of South Viet Nam.

[Wildbill22]

Exactly. Why were “boat people” forced to board barely floating junks and risk the high sea in the hopes of finding a good hearted US ship to save them? Why would they leave by the millions? The media should have focused on that question, and the answer would have been as brutal as the “killing fields” of Cambodia, only they couldn’t blame the US on the brutalities that followed the end of South Viet Nam.

[Wildbill22]

Exactly. Why were “boat people” forced to board barely floating junks and risk the high sea in the hopes of finding a good hearted US ship to save them? Why would they leave by the millions? The media should have focused on that question, and the answer would have been as brutal as the “killing fields” of Cambodia, only they couldn’t blame the US on the brutalities that followed the end of South Viet Nam.

[Wildbill22]

Exactly. Why were “boat people” forced to board barely floating junks and risk the high sea in the hopes of finding a good hearted US ship to save them? Why would they leave by the millions? The media should have focused on that question, and the answer would have been as brutal as the “killing fields” of Cambodia, only they couldn’t blame the US on the brutalities that followed the end of South Viet Nam.

[Wildbill22]

Whoa. sorry, bad internet connection resulting in multiple posts.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

You can say that again.

[Jim W N]

The big picture is the Lefties of today who were the red-diaper-doper-baby Hippies then, decided in their intoxicated stupor that our trying to prevent a Communist invasion into South Vietnam was bad. Bad America for trying to save millions of lives that would come under the deadly Communist rule.

Well, America pulled out and of course the inevitable happened: the North Vietnam Communists invaded, took over, and over a million South Vietnamese were killed under its rule.

[sig226]

The stupid comments following those pictures on the source page are amazing. Boston is truly lost. They want communism. Perhaps we should let them have it.

[SteamShovel]

Democrats - leading the way in human misery and senseless waste.

Wait for the fall of Baghdad.....

.....The RATS are giving the insurgents the timetable for our departure, giving them information for their overthrow plans.

[kjb366]

Did your “bad internet connection” self-click the “post” button 3 times?

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"[T]he [American] media played a major role in the final downfall of South Vietnam. . . . North Vietnam [Communist] General Vo Nguyen Giap [stated] in a French TV broadcast that [the] 'most important guerrilla during the Vietnam War was the American press.'"

And what of today's American media?

I think that Michael Savage -- who's pretty good with such things -- has defined the media's support of the enemy this time.

"The media have become the minarets of terrorism."

The American media are the Islamists' most important muezzins.

[Yardstick]

The comments section is awful, owned by the lefties, though there are a few good comments in there. The best one is by a guy named Justin near the bottom. What impresses me about the pictures is that 35 years later they’re still trying to demoralize us and cast Vietnam as the Bad War. The psyche of the left requires that we be solemn and angry and ashamed when we think of Vietnam. But I think it was a good war, justified and winnable.

[Wpin]

“The stupid comments following those pictures on the source page are amazing. Boston is truly lost. They want communism. Perhaps we should let them have it.”

I agree there were an disappointingly large number of stupid comments, but there are also some wonderfully smart and compassionate comments about the truth. I particularly liked the one by Wintermuth a German who espoused about National Socialism and Communism and wondered about how long stupid ideas like those can truly last when capitalism and freedom are present and so obviously better...