20th July 2009, 6:50 AM
my two cents. When you enter a war, unless the reasoning changes, you follow through and stay the course. You always put your full force behind it, the fact that today our military can pinpoint explosions so that it destroys a building housing terrorists but leaves the school next to it unharmed is amazing, but I believe in bombing the schools as well. You are at war with every man, woman and child (I am a very firm believer in this and I dont care if anyone thinks immoral), especially when you consider that training can begin at a young age, or that children can be used as living bombs by a people that will fight tooth and nail to the very end. If I told you that you're going to fight a lion, you wouldn't bring a muzzle, you'd bring a gun.
What angers me so concerning the Vietnam War is that our people returned home and were ridiculed and demonized. People who put their lives up for grabs and used their bodies to help aid in the support of several nations and peoples returned to a country that essentially hated them. That is because of the anti-war movement and partly because of Cronkite's vocal support of the anti-war movement. Our country tried to step the spread of communism and keep a long standing world enemy from capturing our allies.
I believe there was a peace treaty in the early 70's but no one paid any attention to it. The entire scope of the war was simple: Keep North Vietnam from capturing south Vietnam. In almost a world war with the United States, French (pulled out after like 3 years), Australia, Thailand, New Zealand etc all taking part in the aid of South Vietnam against Republic of China, North Korea, North Vietnam and the Soviet Union. It was a war against ideals with Anti-Communism Vs. Communism and anyone who agreed with either side was essentially joining the effort just for its ideals alone.
Nixon had his agenda, sure. But it was a worthwhile effort and there was a solid reason to support the South. JFK also agreed and supported the war effort and told Americans we have to put our best foot forward and help any ally and burn any foe. He turned it in to the Green Beret war of sorts, an underground movement. But the problem was that no matter what we did to support the South, corruption ran rampant across the south Vietnamese, and for every step we took, we (anti-communism) found ourselves two steps back. But this war was one that had gone on for over a hundred years. When LBJ took over, it wasn't even a priority. It was always a lost cause unless someone was willing to go down in the history books as the triggerman who stopped it.
I dont blame Cronkite for stating his opinions on the war, it could have been an easy war, just wipe out the North like we did to the Japanese, through aggression and fear of destruction, but it became a showpiece. We wanted to rub their noses in it and in the process lost Saigon to the North. If it were the people's war, if we did support it, we would have wiped the North. But the truth is, this hundred year war would have continued after any victory, after any defeat, whether we were involved or not because any communist party would aid the north, and that's what made it unpopular and ridiculous to think there was any war to actually win (hence the references to the middle east's terrorist organizations today), it was a war of ideals.
I fully support any news outlet to have an opinion. It's severely lacking and it's a fact that we are kept in the dark from what is happening. Sometimes, if someone knows what's going on, we should be allowed to hear it. There is always talking heads news gathering, but in conditions of war, we need that opinion to be heard. Especially when the country is split on its own opinion of what to support. Cronkite wasn't wrong, but we should have followed through. There is no reason other than pussyfooting that the south was massacred. Cronkite was one of the best, f not the best in his field.
As far as creationism, anyone who believes anything concerning "Christianity" is oblivious to the truth and regularly fights truth just to uphold their beliefs. I believe in God, I believe he created the universe and he's why there is a constant waltz of space dust forming and swirling with the goal of creating of life. The dynamics of genetics and hereditary, evolution, ecological trial and error, etc are all a part of God because God is the sentience that is a collection of every living thing down to the very energy that holds atoms together that yearns to see tomorrow. "Christianity" is a bullshit theory for faggots created by retards to jackoff the confused. If you want to know what really happened, ask a Jew. If you're looking for a savior, look in the mirror. And if you want to learn about the existence of the universe and how it works, seek the educated.
/rant
What angers me so concerning the Vietnam War is that our people returned home and were ridiculed and demonized. People who put their lives up for grabs and used their bodies to help aid in the support of several nations and peoples returned to a country that essentially hated them. That is because of the anti-war movement and partly because of Cronkite's vocal support of the anti-war movement. Our country tried to step the spread of communism and keep a long standing world enemy from capturing our allies.
I believe there was a peace treaty in the early 70's but no one paid any attention to it. The entire scope of the war was simple: Keep North Vietnam from capturing south Vietnam. In almost a world war with the United States, French (pulled out after like 3 years), Australia, Thailand, New Zealand etc all taking part in the aid of South Vietnam against Republic of China, North Korea, North Vietnam and the Soviet Union. It was a war against ideals with Anti-Communism Vs. Communism and anyone who agreed with either side was essentially joining the effort just for its ideals alone.
Nixon had his agenda, sure. But it was a worthwhile effort and there was a solid reason to support the South. JFK also agreed and supported the war effort and told Americans we have to put our best foot forward and help any ally and burn any foe. He turned it in to the Green Beret war of sorts, an underground movement. But the problem was that no matter what we did to support the South, corruption ran rampant across the south Vietnamese, and for every step we took, we (anti-communism) found ourselves two steps back. But this war was one that had gone on for over a hundred years. When LBJ took over, it wasn't even a priority. It was always a lost cause unless someone was willing to go down in the history books as the triggerman who stopped it.
I dont blame Cronkite for stating his opinions on the war, it could have been an easy war, just wipe out the North like we did to the Japanese, through aggression and fear of destruction, but it became a showpiece. We wanted to rub their noses in it and in the process lost Saigon to the North. If it were the people's war, if we did support it, we would have wiped the North. But the truth is, this hundred year war would have continued after any victory, after any defeat, whether we were involved or not because any communist party would aid the north, and that's what made it unpopular and ridiculous to think there was any war to actually win (hence the references to the middle east's terrorist organizations today), it was a war of ideals.
I fully support any news outlet to have an opinion. It's severely lacking and it's a fact that we are kept in the dark from what is happening. Sometimes, if someone knows what's going on, we should be allowed to hear it. There is always talking heads news gathering, but in conditions of war, we need that opinion to be heard. Especially when the country is split on its own opinion of what to support. Cronkite wasn't wrong, but we should have followed through. There is no reason other than pussyfooting that the south was massacred. Cronkite was one of the best, f not the best in his field.
As far as creationism, anyone who believes anything concerning "Christianity" is oblivious to the truth and regularly fights truth just to uphold their beliefs. I believe in God, I believe he created the universe and he's why there is a constant waltz of space dust forming and swirling with the goal of creating of life. The dynamics of genetics and hereditary, evolution, ecological trial and error, etc are all a part of God because God is the sentience that is a collection of every living thing down to the very energy that holds atoms together that yearns to see tomorrow. "Christianity" is a bullshit theory for faggots created by retards to jackoff the confused. If you want to know what really happened, ask a Jew. If you're looking for a savior, look in the mirror. And if you want to learn about the existence of the universe and how it works, seek the educated.
/rant