“Korea, Vietnam, almost 100,000 dead, millions of wounded, for what?”
Did you see the first Austin Powers movie? Remember that when they told the reawakened Powers that the Cold War was over, he immediately assumed that the Communists had won?
Perhaps it was an accidental swerve into the truth, but it was profound. A large majority of the human race assumed, right up until Reagan won it, that the Communists would win the Cold War. Perhaps this was because they were willing to do anything to win, and we weren’t. Ronaldus Magnus found a way to win that didn’t involve crimes against humanity, but that outcome was by no means guaranteed.
The Soviets were never a first-world country. They were a third-world country with first-world weapons. The Supreme Soviet kept their entire country in grinding poverty so they could use that money in the quest for (danger music) world conquest.
Yep, just like in the movies, they were out to conquer the world. They were doing a pretty good job, too. A lot of the horrible things we see in our country today are the results of Soviet programs begun during the cold war.
Evil should never be allowed to masquerade as a “responsible opposing viewpoint” to good, in any of its manifestations. However, that was what the useful idiots demanded, and the anti-anti-communists had rendered risible the suggestion that the Soviets were evil: until Reagan.
What, you dare ask, were the Korean and Viet Nam wars for? I’ll give you two things right off the top of my head. The first is that these wars were pushback against Soviet conquest. Soviet analysts have said that the Viet Nam war pushed the collapse of the Evil Empire forward by at least ten years.
The second is a more abstract reason: generally speaking, opposing evil is the right thing to do. If the communists had taken over South Korea, the bloodbath would have been unimaginable. When Ted Kennedy and other traitors in America threw the South Vietnamese to the wolves, the bloodbath was bad enough that even Joan Baez (Al Capp’s Joanie Phony) reversed herself.
I certainly hope that, even today, no one is naïve enough to think that the Soviets would have stopped with the rest of Korea and the rest of Viet Nam. We fought there because that’s where evil was attacking. By doing so, we prevented untold evils from befalling mankind.
The Vietnam War is more widely misunderstood now than ever before, because of the determined efforts of leftards to deceive humanity. Don’t be one of the deceived.
Perhaps what I have said will not prevent you from repeating this lie. On the other hand, perhaps it will immunize someone against that particular piece of propaganda.
I miss Al Capp.
Thank you, sir.
As for Korea, we did stop China and the Norks from taking over the whole country. What's POing me is all the rhetoric about Yankee go home from the South esp. that gangsta rap guy.
“They were a third-world country with first-world weapons.”
... and they STOLE the IT for the weapons from US.