Comments on: before http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/06/29/before/ Jen and Jonno's World Tour 2006 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:34:33 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: daddio http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/06/29/before/comment-page-1/#comment-89 daddio Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:28:00 +0000 http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=128#comment-89 it is astounding to me that we as a people (u.s. citizens) had felt so threatened that our leaders felt it was best to kill, destroy and to sacrifice 58,000 of our children and leave bereft hundreds of thousands of their families in the name of stopping communism in asia. in our wake hundreds of thousands have been killed directly by us and the s. vietnam government. we brought the war, the killing, the fear, the unrest to laos and cambodia. millions more were to die by the revolutions our presence sparked. it is convenient to see the kamer rouge as mad. it is inconvenient for most of us to reflect on our own national psychosis. el salvador, guatemala, panama, kuwait, afghanistan, iraq, and lets not forgot the island in the caribbean whose name is, in fact, forgotten. the u.s. is only too willing to kill to try to achieve what it wants. we delude ourselves with freedom and democracy, but it is, in reality, it is always about dollars and dominance. rawanda, cambodia? no need, nothing to gain, just people being massacred. as you get a rare opportunity to see the results of our folly, i get to remember that i could have been one of those who died, or who, perhaps, could have done the killing. these asian countries were left impovished and scarred for the present and future generations. we went on to our next war and lamented our loss of national dignity in our defeat. today, like always, we are led by lies and liars who promise us security and exagerate the threat. our presence creats new jahadist and a world who righly call us immoral and imperialistic. like cambodia, surrounding countries are less secure and ripe for revolutionary insurgencies and new blood baths. it will be very intersting in 30 years to visit these new war zones as you visit those of the past. will they still be living with the scars and recalling the tragedy? will they, like they do in hue, mark time by what happened before and what happened after? will we be marching on to our next war? the only winner in was is death. it is astounding to me that we as a people (u.s. citizens) had felt so threatened that our leaders felt it was best to kill, destroy and to sacrifice 58,000 of our children and leave bereft hundreds of thousands of their families in the name of stopping communism in asia. in our wake hundreds of thousands have been killed directly by us and the s. vietnam government. we brought the war, the killing, the fear, the unrest to laos and cambodia. millions more were to die by the revolutions our presence sparked. it is convenient to see the kamer rouge as mad. it is inconvenient for most of us to reflect on our own national psychosis.

el salvador, guatemala, panama, kuwait, afghanistan, iraq, and lets not forgot the island in the caribbean whose name is, in fact, forgotten. the u.s. is only too willing to kill to try to achieve what it wants. we delude ourselves with freedom and democracy, but it is, in reality, it is always about dollars and dominance. rawanda, cambodia? no need, nothing to gain, just people being massacred.

as you get a rare opportunity to see the results of our folly, i get to remember that i could have been one of those who died, or who, perhaps, could have done the killing. these asian countries were left impovished and scarred for the present and future generations. we went on to our next war and lamented our loss of national dignity in our defeat.

today, like always, we are led by lies and liars who promise us security and exagerate the threat. our presence creats new jahadist and a world who righly call us immoral and imperialistic. like cambodia, surrounding countries are less secure and ripe for revolutionary insurgencies and new blood baths. it will be very intersting in 30 years to visit these new war zones as you visit those of the past. will they still be living with the scars and recalling the tragedy? will they, like they do in hue, mark time by what happened before and what happened after? will we be marching on to our next war?

the only winner in was is death.

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