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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject: Et Tu "Stars and Stripes"? |
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And now the "Stars and Stripes" has joined the "media" chorus of adulation for this horrific nomination with this distribution of an AP story (emphasis mine)...
| Quote: | Kerry a familiar face on the world stage
By DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press
Dec 22, 2012
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But Kerry was pounded by the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, a group that made unsubstantiated claims challenging Kerry's war record of a Silver Star, a Bronze Star for combat valor and three Purple Hearts. His candidacy also was dogged by his anti-war stance in April 1971 when he testified before the committee he would later chair and famously asked, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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As media pundits and others pile undeserving adulation on Kerry, an article appearing in the latest American Legion Magazine, while not mentioning Kerry, points out just how wrong Kerry was back then and today as he declares he was proven right.
Why we went to war in Vietnam
The article concludes, | Quote: | "From today’s perspective, the Vietnam War looks less like a senseless blunder on the part of the United States than like a replay of the Korean War in a different region with a different outcome. Elsewhere in Asia, including the Philippines, Malaya and Indonesia, communist insurgencies were defeated by local governments, sometimes with the help of British or French advisers and combat troops. It may be that those insurgencies failed, while communist regimes survived in part of Korea and unified Vietnam, because of one factor: the absence of a land border with post-1949 communist China, which provided material support, manpower and deterrence of a U.S. escalation that might risk wider war with China.
Ever since the fall of Saigon, Americans have sought to draw lessons from Vietnam, but some have been short-lived. In the late 20th century, U.S. policymakers and military strategists, hoping to put the memory of Vietnam behind them, focused on swift, high-tech warfare against technologically advanced adversaries – only to painfully relearn forgotten lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan about counterinsurgency and nation-building.
In the aftermath of Vietnam, the United States sought to put Asian conflicts behind it. But the recently announced “pivot” away from the Middle East toward Asia is widely viewed as an American strategy of containing China, with which the United States fought bloody proxy wars in Vietnam and Korea in living memory. In a Sino-American conflict in the 21st century, Vietnam might even be an American ally.
As a historical event, the Vietnam War is an unchanging part of the past. As a symbol, it will continue to evolve, reflecting the values and priorities of later generations. In discussing and debating the nation’s most controversial war, Americans would do well to remember the words of the poet T.S. Eliot: “There is no such thing as a Lost Cause, because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause.” |
Kerry, if you recall, in his 1971 "testimony" labeled it "the biggest nothing in history."
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Stars and Stripes joined the leftstream media a LONG time ago. 20 years ago, when we were overseas, we read the comics. It was blatantly liberal then and it can only have gotten worse.
And this is what we're feeding our troops overseas. A steady barrage of anti-military and even anti-American propaganda. How good that is for morale, eh? 
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