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In reply to the discussion: Kentucky theater bans ‘The Butler’ because Jane Fonda is ‘the enemy’ [View all]The Wizard
(12,541 posts)I went to Vietnam. That was the same year Defense Secretary Robert Strange McNamara said they knew the war was lost. And therein is the real reason people, especially Vietnam Veterans, should be angry. Jane Fonda provided a scapegoat and diversion for the war mongers and profiteers who got rich perpetrating the communist menace. At what point did Vietnam attack or threaten the United States?
In fact, Ho Chi Minh wanted us as an ally after evicting the French imperialists who were there to rape Vietnam of its resources. On Vietnam's first Independence Day while Ho was giving a speech using these words "We hold these truths to be self evident that we are endowed by or creator with the inalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." And when an American plane flew over the crowd cheered.
Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon made red baiting an art form and successful political strategy. So much so that Lyndon Johnson succumbed to the Rostows and Dulles brothers and attacked Vietnam so as to not look like he was soft on communism. Hubris, jingoism and unwarranted fear got us into that terrible fiasco.
Am I still pissed off? Yes.
Nothing is more immoral than war for profit.