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Some stuff to know about the Viet Nam war.


Before the war escalated, when it was advisors and non-coms,
the Americans were in charge of a project to make villages in
Viet Nam rebuild themselves inside wire fences, like concentration
camps, willingly, without being paid, and for no real reason.

The idea is that the NVN army could not draft soldiers from them.

Can you imagine someone coming to your town and forcing you
on your own time and dime to build a concentration camp where
you were expected to be our of in the morning and back into at
night.

How can that possibly be in line with spreading democracy around the
world. It was not, it was BS, and it was the most evil thing this
country has done, worse than slavery, maybe not as bad as the
native American genocide, but at least the Indians were able to
fight back.

The same things happened in the Korean war, but there was not a
news industry like there was at the time of Viet Nam. What a
dispiacable waste of 54,260 American lives, and as usual, we will
never get the true county of enemy or civilian deaths. The US would
bomb dams and flood towns and villages, against the Geneva convention.

Right after we wanted the world think there was such a thing as laws
during wartime, at Nuremburg, we violated everything the Allies supposedly
stood for. Rule of law ... what a joke.

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JFK was there at the start.

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The Vietnam War spelt sideways is M-E-S-S.

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And in the way past every single person. Man women and child would have been killed.

I know its hard for many to understand, but since the beginning of time stronger groups take over weaker ones.

Ever see the movie 300 and what the persians would do to civilizations back then.
Ever single person was killed and any trace of that civilization was burned.

Ghengis Khan would do the same.
He would surround a city, ordered attacks that would last weeks, and every trace of that civilization was erased.

Its happens when certain civilizations progress to rapidly and others just seem to stay still

When the euros arrived, the. Native Americans were 100s of years behind with very poor abilities to progress.

It was inevitable, if the euro's didint wipe them out the. Next powerful civilization would have.

Humans slowly have the strongest surviving and the weakest slowly breaking off.



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> Ever see the movie 300 and what the persians would do to civilizations back then.
> Ever single person was killed and any trace of that civilization was burned.

You might want to check that and every other fact you think your learned from a movie out with a real history book.

Wiping out cultures that you think are backwards has left humanity with very few examples of cultural anthropology. It is like plowing over every archeological site and then never being able to look back to find out about our own history.

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Yes I have read about ghengis Khan and his war tactics.

Also about the brutality of the persians?

Are you saying these people did not wipe out groups of people?

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