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in a tiny, peasant country, and failed. When the United States fought
in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized
human beings, and the human beings won.?
-Chapter 18, A People?s history of the United States
Anyone who knows anything about the Vietnam War, knows that we did not
make a ?maximum military effort? in fighting this war. He fails to mention that the senior
political and military leadership of the United States was inept and we waged this war in
a half-hearted manner. We did not buildup military forces in Vietnam or the bordering
Southeast Asian countries. Instead we sent a minimal number of our boys into the jungles
to die. We would then replace them with improperly trained men, without any additional
aid or hope of reinforcements. Our pilot?s were not allowed to bomb strategic locations in
Hanoi. The North Vietnamese military leadership knew this and stored a large supply of
military hardware there. This is just another example of Zinn’s clearly socialist-biased
writing. If he wasn’t so caught up in spreading Marxism by praising the cruel North
Vietnamese soldiers and citizens, then he might realize he has the facts wrong. The North
Vietnamese soldiers and citizens are the ones who committed numerous atrocities against
American soldiers during the war(the infamous POW camps). In my opinion Zinn is too
busy spreading anti-American propaganda, to realize these facts or is just unwilling to
acknowledge them.
To put it bluntly, please spare me the bleeding heart liberal slant on history, life
isn?t fair, period. Without this country and the principles it was founded on, life would
indeed be more miserable and similar to the millions of people who are currently
suffering in Third world countries, or under the hammer of communism. There isn?t a
country in this world that doesn?t have skeletons in their closet. For a country that had
and still has so many problems (according to Zinn), I think we turned out to be just fine.
Things in our society will never be perfect, but we keep striving to make things better and
our citizens are granted the freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That?s
what makes this the greatest country in the world today. For those people who want to
rewrite history, let history speak for itself, good or bad and don’t inflate or deflate it