Wed May 20 00:25:09 2020
<7d56dcb3> Merrill McPeak is a retired 4-star general in the USAF and he was talking about his experiences bombing the ho chi minh trail…
<5547a085> The vietnamese HATE China, it is extradinarily disingenuous to use Ho Chi Minh to paint the CCP in a positive light
<5547a085> Once again … false equivalence on sale for $9.99, get yours today!
<7d56dcb3> this is from the ken burns documentary vietnam on netflix… it’s a pretty good series…
honestly, i almost choked on my food when i heard gen mcpeak say that. i have some commie sympathies, but this guy just took it to a whole new level…
<7d56dcb3> funny thing is, i know a lot of SVN too… ARVN types and shit… really commie haters… their heads would’ve probably exploded if they heard mcpeak say that.
<5547a085> It was foolish for US command to view Vietnam as a red threat, they would never havee submitted to Chinese rule. It was France’s mess as a throwback to a previous colonial era. Militarily European skirmishes are poorly administered, especially France. Johnson was a fuckhead president who became president when JFK was assassinated + the Dulles brothers and Nixon followed. I think McNamera was even dumb about it. Its history by now. But it has zero bearing on why CCP in the modern era is evil.