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Blaming the Media coverage for Vietnam Loss

submitted by Farhad2000

1 decade 6 years 2 months 4 weeks ago

The program made in 1984, pushes the idea that the Vietnam war was lost not because of ill fated decision to get involved in Vietnam. But because the media was pushing for a loss in Vietnam.

This how now there is a view that Vietnam was lost because of media coverage, which in turn lead to embedded reportage and strangling of war coverage by the US Army.

A new version of Weimar stab-in-the-back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_legend

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Moving this video to Farhad2000's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'vietnam, war, media, propaganda, history rewritten' to 'vietnam, war, media, propaganda, history rewritten, charlton heston, lies' - edited by therealblankman

therealblankman

This is really interesting and worthy of a 3rd party *beg

therealblankman

No such thing, 'eh Sifty, you useless piece of badly written script-kiddie code? *promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by therealblankman.

dystopianfuturetoday

Very truthy. *lies

Adding video to channels (Lies) - requested by dystopianfuturetoday.

I heard a CSpan interview with Nixon dated around the same time, in which he insisted the war was a great idea and not at all a waste of human life. In his autobiography, I believe it was, Nixon argued that America had "won the war" but "lost the peace"--which seems to demonstrate his own confusion, about the possibility of "winning" a pointless contest of mass-killing.

The dominoes never fell. Vietnam went right to war with its ancient enemy China, shortly after the departure of the Quixotic, merciless Americans. And now right-wing scum celebrate the Cambodian Genocide as a gift to vile revisionism, ad infinitum. George W used it not so long ago, in contending that the USA never should have left Vietnam--you can guess what argument he was making with that pretzel logic.

*long

This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by jonny.

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