The fact is that we were the bad guys in Vietnam.
The American War: The U.S. in Vietnam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LctoUV-tag
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fake-ne...nemies/5604628
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Fake news abounded in the
Times and other mainstream publications during the Vietnam War. The common perception that the paper’s editors opposed the war is misleading and essentially false. In
Without Fear or Favor, former
Times reporter
Harrison Salisbury acknowledged that in 1962, when U.S. intervention escalated, the
Times was “deeply and consistently” supportive of the war policy.
8 He contends that the paper grew steadily more oppositional from 1965, culminating in the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. But Salisbury fails to recognize that from 1954 to the present, the
Times never abandoned the Cold War framework and vocabulary, according to which the United States was resisting another nation’s “aggression” and protecting “South Vietnam.” The paper never applied the word aggression to this country, but used it freely in referring to North Vietnamese actions and those of the National Liberation Front in the southern half of Vietnam.
The various pauses in the U.S. bombing war in 1965 and after, in the alleged interest of “giving peace a chance,” were also the basis of fake news as the Johnson administration used these temporary halts to quiet antiwar protests, while making it clear to the Vietnamese that U.S. officials demanded full surrender. The
Times and its colleagues swallowed this bait without a murmur of dissent.
Furthermore, although from 1965 onward the
Times was willing to publish more reports that put the war in a less favorable light, it never broke from its heavy dependence on official sources, or from its reluctance to confront the damage wrought on Vietnam and its civilian population by the U.S. war machine. In contrast with its eager pursuit of Cambodian refugees from the Khmer Rouge after April 1975, the paper rarely sought testimony from the millions of Vietnamese refugees fleeing U.S. bombing and chemical warfare. In its opinion columns as well, the new openness was limited to commentators who accepted the premises of the war and would confine their criticisms to its tactical problems and domestic costs. From beginning to end, those who criticized the war as an immoral campaign of sheer aggression were excluded from the debate.
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Noam Chomsky - The Vietnam War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rujpY2veyuk
What Caused the American-Vietnam War? (Noam Chomsky)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXalPqJyeg
Noam Chomsky Vietnam War Remembered FULL TALK + Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3DwzLjEWWQ