Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
The white washing of history to make Hamas look like the good guys is atrocious
When “Hamas” is the label you slap on the corpse to justify the killing, you quickly run into the problem of explaining why “Hamas” look like a pile of dead children.
We saw the same game play out in Vietnam. We’d send marines into a village to do a Zippo Raid of a village we suspected of harboring dissidents and their supply caches. Consequently, we burned down the homes of countless bystandars and built up a large public hatred for American military occupation.
“The Vietcong are no angles!” did little to bring Americans around in favor of Vietnam. The My Lai Massacre photos did little to justify the atrocities we committed. In the end, the picture of a Vietnamese resident during the war stopped being a Soviet-trained guerrilla and started to look more like a bunch of crying naked children.
You can claim we “whitewashed” history to make the Vietnamese insurgents look good. But the truth of the matter is that we shouldn’t have been over there and we shouldn’t have committed all those horrendous acts. Trying to claim that the Vietnamese deserved it is a fool’s errand.
Much like the Americans after Vietnam, Israel won’t be able to wash their hands of this blood for a generation.
When “Hamas” is the label you slap on the corpse to justify the killing, you quickly run into the problem of explaining why “Hamas” look like a pile of dead children.
We saw the same game play out in Vietnam. We’d send marines into a village to do a Zippo Raid of a village we suspected of harboring dissidents and their supply caches. Consequently, we burned down the homes of countless bystandars and built up a large public hatred for American military occupation.
“The Vietcong are no angles!” did little to bring Americans around in favor of Vietnam. The My Lai Massacre photos did little to justify the atrocities we committed. In the end, the picture of a Vietnamese resident during the war stopped being a Soviet-trained guerrilla and started to look more like a bunch of crying naked children.
You can claim we “whitewashed” history to make the Vietnamese insurgents look good. But the truth of the matter is that we shouldn’t have been over there and we shouldn’t have committed all those horrendous acts. Trying to claim that the Vietnamese deserved it is a fool’s errand.
Much like the Americans after Vietnam, Israel won’t be able to wash their hands of this blood for a generation.
The French shouldn’t have ever been there and they got their asses served to them. Then muricans said hold my beer and got served too.