Thank you for mentioning Julian Assange for exposing usa war crimes; His revelations are now more appropriately deemed ´Collateral Murder`... doG bless ameryucka
It's disturbing to me that the majority of the population continues to wander around buried in their phones but oblivious to what has been happening under our noses since the "War on Terror" began. And well before.
I agree: Global War OF Terror. not on Terror. Back in 2005, my club had a resolution for an Iraqi Children's War Memorial and Natasha was allowed to speak on behalf of the resolution on the floor of the E-board meeting about all the children who had died from our country's actions there. The resolution passed unanimously. Of course, now the Democratic Party is the Party of War. It's cut all pretense of being a peace Party.
I hate to say it, but the US will never learn from its mistakes. Our warmongering WILL finally end with a nuclear war when the chickens come home to roost. (It appears they're on their way.)
I was already perturbed by a 9/11 memorial in almost every single New Jersey town. And I still don't understand how so many fire companies reportedly sent trucks out and lost men. We have over 600 municipalities, and they all arrived in the time window between 8:45 and the fall of the second tower? Was that also virtue signalling?
Now a GWOT memorial. Aren't we still IN that war, considering all the laws and executive orders are still in effect? We should, by logic, have a War on Drugs memorial: plenty of casualties, it's still going on, and it's bullshit. Even better, most of the dead were Black or Brown, so the victims get the appropriate sympathy.
It's true that the Vietnam War Memorial is genuinely reflective. If I recall correctly, its design and memorializing mission were pretty controversial at the time. The War on Terror was bogus clap-trap, but a certain kind of illiteracy has allowed atrocity exhibitions like it to happen, and so many Americans just nod along. Personally, I don't trust this "No American boots on-the-ground in Ukraine" business, but on the positive side it looks like Poland's out...
I remembered the era of the wooden Kissinger and the bespectacled McNamara during the Vietnam era . They are replaced today by the sneaky and the corrupted Obama Administration with their bumbling marionette and sock puppet Biden giving billions away to their Ukraine comrades while demoralizing and making Eunuchs of their own armed forces with woke bs.
Get into Viet Thanh Nguyen's work, and you can see how that supposed War Memorial for Vietnam Murder Inc is a sham. How many Vietnamese died in that war, even just counting those fighting on the side of USA?
Right. None of them listed.
1961-1972, The United States backed South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. The American Special Forces recruited and trained over 40,000 Montagnard troops who fought and died alongside the American soldiers with courage, loyalty and enduring friendship. The Montagnard leaders were told, and most believed, that the U.S. government would help the Montagnard people regain their autonomous state with the rights for self-determination and self-governance.
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Read Viet's new memoir, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, a Memorial. His novels are not becoming HBO special dramas.
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I had Le Ly Hayslip come to the Fall of Saigon Vietnam event I put on in El Paso. When Heaven and Earth Canged Places, her autobiography turned into a Stone, Heaven and Earth, part of his trilogy on Vietnam.
Bush Senior, the Jewish Neocons, the Goyim Neocons, the Cheney Factory Boys and Girls, all and W, it was always about, from Powell to Schwartz, Never Another Vietnam.
I taught English and writing at Fort Bliss and Biggs Field and another half dozen places called posts and bases. College classes. Oh, that, "THis will never be another Vietnam" crap.
Never another Iraq? Never another Afghanistan? Never another Libya? Never another Proxy this and Proxy that?
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Cindy, I'm glad you saw the light after your son's death. My old man was 32 years in both AF and Army, shot in Korea as a kid soldier, and shot in Vietnam as a 36 year old CW4, crypto, black box kinda guy. I have always know what the rats were and will be forever in the US military. Communism, as in real communism, was always my underpinning wherever I was as a journalist, educator, writer.
Even the beautiful people (sic) and the others hated me or wanted to know, "Why not leave USA if you don't love USA?"
Robert Bly, RIP, had it down in the early 1960s. English department fucks hated him then, as the English Department fucks hated me in the 1980s until my college teaching days ended in 2018, not of my doing.
You did indeed mention the slaughtered Vietnamese, total, in Vietnam, but even the ones in proxy uniform for the USA, Montagnards, why no mention of them at the "memorial," and alas, those Montagnards who did "make" it to the USA, as refugees, ended up being the poorest of the poor in U$A.
I can't be bothered digging up the details, but I remember when the preposterous marketing slogan "The Global War on Terror" reached its sell-by date.
From the beginning, this Orwellian, grandiose term had been appropriately sneered at and derided by persons with a modicum of intelligence and perspicacity-- even many who were otherwise useful idiots, and bought into the bogus premise that righteous and exceptional Amerika was under attack by a mysterious international organization of psychopathic Muslim terrorists. Even the late-night talk show hosts who later emerged as sycophantic authoritarian-submissives scoffed at the semantic absurdity of "a war on a noun".
Anyway, IIRC the phrase was officially retired during the Obama administration. It was replaced by some obscure Beltway bureaucracy-speak that was rarely used in official statements, and which no one remembered-- that was the intent, I'm sure. So I'm surprised that this pompous buzz-phrase is being rehabilitated.
If this obscene travesty is actually built, what say we begin fundraising to construct a countervailing GFY Memorial across the street? 🤔
"Written by Barry McNamara and brilliantly animated by Simon Robson aka. Knife Party, it's an animated look at the War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the people behind the Project for a New American Century as stated in their September 2000 report.
Winner, Best Animation at the Brooklyn International Film and the Portabello Film Festival."
The injury happened September 7 and for a couple weeks the pain stayed between a five and a nine. For about 10 days or so I was doubled over in pain. It's slowly getting better I think and hope.
I quote you often Cindy. "War destroys a mother's hard work."
Peace and hugs
Thank you for mentioning Julian Assange for exposing usa war crimes; His revelations are now more appropriately deemed ´Collateral Murder`... doG bless ameryucka
It's disturbing to me that the majority of the population continues to wander around buried in their phones but oblivious to what has been happening under our noses since the "War on Terror" began. And well before.
their noses are buried in phones and up the a-holes of their favorite celebrities, or politicians. Busy noses.
"Woke"? They don't even pay attention when crossing the street or parking lot, smh.
I had to swerve my wheelchair around an idiot in the middle of the street on his phone yesterday. He's a poster child for..
I didn't know you were in a wheelchair???
So inconsiderate of them... I am very glad you are aware!
Thank you for your response. They're mindless zombies. Mindless and Thoughtless.
Russell Brand also covered this topic eloquently yesterday on Rumble.
Russell Brand is so damned eloquent, isn't he?
I am sorry for his troubles because he's not as funny, or outgoing as he used to be.
He's more serious, which isn't a bad thing, but I hope he can get some closure, or whatever.
that's where I first learned of it.
I was so outraged, I needed to write.
Thank you for this. I send deep sympathy and hugs. I truly admire your persistence, knowledge, and courage in light of all the tragedy. Take care.
xo
"War is a moral imperative for the morally impaired." - Ned B.
I agree: Global War OF Terror. not on Terror. Back in 2005, my club had a resolution for an Iraqi Children's War Memorial and Natasha was allowed to speak on behalf of the resolution on the floor of the E-board meeting about all the children who had died from our country's actions there. The resolution passed unanimously. Of course, now the Democratic Party is the Party of War. It's cut all pretense of being a peace Party.
I hate to say it, but the US will never learn from its mistakes. Our warmongering WILL finally end with a nuclear war when the chickens come home to roost. (It appears they're on their way.)
I was already perturbed by a 9/11 memorial in almost every single New Jersey town. And I still don't understand how so many fire companies reportedly sent trucks out and lost men. We have over 600 municipalities, and they all arrived in the time window between 8:45 and the fall of the second tower? Was that also virtue signalling?
Now a GWOT memorial. Aren't we still IN that war, considering all the laws and executive orders are still in effect? We should, by logic, have a War on Drugs memorial: plenty of casualties, it's still going on, and it's bullshit. Even better, most of the dead were Black or Brown, so the victims get the appropriate sympathy.
It's true that the Vietnam War Memorial is genuinely reflective. If I recall correctly, its design and memorializing mission were pretty controversial at the time. The War on Terror was bogus clap-trap, but a certain kind of illiteracy has allowed atrocity exhibitions like it to happen, and so many Americans just nod along. Personally, I don't trust this "No American boots on-the-ground in Ukraine" business, but on the positive side it looks like Poland's out...
I remembered the era of the wooden Kissinger and the bespectacled McNamara during the Vietnam era . They are replaced today by the sneaky and the corrupted Obama Administration with their bumbling marionette and sock puppet Biden giving billions away to their Ukraine comrades while demoralizing and making Eunuchs of their own armed forces with woke bs.
Get into Viet Thanh Nguyen's work, and you can see how that supposed War Memorial for Vietnam Murder Inc is a sham. How many Vietnamese died in that war, even just counting those fighting on the side of USA?
Right. None of them listed.
1961-1972, The United States backed South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. The American Special Forces recruited and trained over 40,000 Montagnard troops who fought and died alongside the American soldiers with courage, loyalty and enduring friendship. The Montagnard leaders were told, and most believed, that the U.S. government would help the Montagnard people regain their autonomous state with the rights for self-determination and self-governance.
+--+
Read Viet's new memoir, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, a Memorial. His novels are not becoming HBO special dramas.
+--+
I had Le Ly Hayslip come to the Fall of Saigon Vietnam event I put on in El Paso. When Heaven and Earth Canged Places, her autobiography turned into a Stone, Heaven and Earth, part of his trilogy on Vietnam.
+--+
The Sorrow of War, read that one about Vietnam.
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https://vietnguyen.info/2020/viet-thanh-nguyen-nothing-ever-dies-vietnam-and-the-memory-of-war
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Bush Senior, the Jewish Neocons, the Goyim Neocons, the Cheney Factory Boys and Girls, all and W, it was always about, from Powell to Schwartz, Never Another Vietnam.
I taught English and writing at Fort Bliss and Biggs Field and another half dozen places called posts and bases. College classes. Oh, that, "THis will never be another Vietnam" crap.
Never another Iraq? Never another Afghanistan? Never another Libya? Never another Proxy this and Proxy that?
+--+
Cindy, I'm glad you saw the light after your son's death. My old man was 32 years in both AF and Army, shot in Korea as a kid soldier, and shot in Vietnam as a 36 year old CW4, crypto, black box kinda guy. I have always know what the rats were and will be forever in the US military. Communism, as in real communism, was always my underpinning wherever I was as a journalist, educator, writer.
Even the beautiful people (sic) and the others hated me or wanted to know, "Why not leave USA if you don't love USA?"
Robert Bly, RIP, had it down in the early 1960s. English department fucks hated him then, as the English Department fucks hated me in the 1980s until my college teaching days ended in 2018, not of my doing.
https://www.inlander.com/news/blys-call-to-duty-2128598
Did I not mention them?
You did indeed mention the slaughtered Vietnamese, total, in Vietnam, but even the ones in proxy uniform for the USA, Montagnards, why no mention of them at the "memorial," and alas, those Montagnards who did "make" it to the USA, as refugees, ended up being the poorest of the poor in U$A.
Read Viet Thanh Nguyen, or listen to him:
https://www.youtube.com/live/0sW_iSfZY98?si=vg83b2tRjDrFaZkZ
https://youtu.be/n9DcTf2hfns?si=_Os2_nEl3MmT3BEB
Sobering from this man who is a man with two faces, Pulitzer Prize winner, and alas, Vietnamese but, well, Not Vietnamese!
thank you
okay. So you filled in the blanks.
Yup. For three weeks now.
what happened? If you don't mind me asking.
I've had an inguinal hernia for about 12-15 years and have always been able to manage flare ups but this time...
I can't be bothered digging up the details, but I remember when the preposterous marketing slogan "The Global War on Terror" reached its sell-by date.
From the beginning, this Orwellian, grandiose term had been appropriately sneered at and derided by persons with a modicum of intelligence and perspicacity-- even many who were otherwise useful idiots, and bought into the bogus premise that righteous and exceptional Amerika was under attack by a mysterious international organization of psychopathic Muslim terrorists. Even the late-night talk show hosts who later emerged as sycophantic authoritarian-submissives scoffed at the semantic absurdity of "a war on a noun".
Anyway, IIRC the phrase was officially retired during the Obama administration. It was replaced by some obscure Beltway bureaucracy-speak that was rarely used in official statements, and which no one remembered-- that was the intent, I'm sure. So I'm surprised that this pompous buzz-phrase is being rehabilitated.
If this obscene travesty is actually built, what say we begin fundraising to construct a countervailing GFY Memorial across the street? 🤔
"Written by Barry McNamara and brilliantly animated by Simon Robson aka. Knife Party, it's an animated look at the War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the people behind the Project for a New American Century as stated in their September 2000 report.
Winner, Best Animation at the Brooklyn International Film and the Portabello Film Festival."
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/what-barry-says-its-war-corporatism/
The injury happened September 7 and for a couple weeks the pain stayed between a five and a nine. For about 10 days or so I was doubled over in pain. It's slowly getting better I think and hope.