[extropy-chat] Re: is america fascist yet?

[Matus]

> >> http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/nytviet.htm
> >>
> >> U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote:
> >> Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror
> >> by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967)
> >

To cite the fact that South Vietnam had an incredible election, and the
fact that it is a hell hole today, completely ignores the reasons WHY it
is that way today.  It ignores the Soviet Union's backing of the North
Vietnamese communists, a well armed but minority group who sought to
force the entire population to live under their brutal system.  It
ignores the fact that the South Vietnamese fended off the invasions of
the Soviet North for a full two years before finally being overrun, with
NO help from the United States.  It ignores the fact that the US
Democratically led congressional abandonment of Indochina handed over
the entire region, and its 120 million occupants, to Soviet communism,
and millions were killed as a result.  That liberals cite this as a
reason to not be excited about the results of the election in Iraq is
disgusting, since it is their actions that let Vietnam become the
absolute hell hole it is today.  

Michael