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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