Vietnam war discussion thread

[Edge Guerrero]

Call of duty had a good one.

- Never played that.
I gonna try to find.

Thank you.^^

[Masato]

Its so trippy to watch/play any sort of american vietnam entertainment... and watch it from the point of view that the US are evil murderous invaders

The whole thing gets twisted completely.

Odd indeed how such a hardcore event just sort of gets washed over in history. Most people couldn't even tell you what it was (supposed to be) about.

Its things like Vietnam that give credence to the far-out theories that our overlords actually crave death and suffering, that they feed off it somehow and need to perpetually create it to get their fix. Beyond a certain point there is little other explanation how they could bring themselves to keep creating so much horror...

[Edge Guerrero]

Its so trippy to watch/play any sort of american vietnam entertainment... and watch it from the point of view that the US are evil murderous invaders

The whole thing gets twisted completely.

Odd indeed how such a hardcore event just sort of gets washed over in history. Most people couldn't even tell you what it was (supposed to be) about.

Its things like Vietnam that give credence to the far-out theories that our overlords actually crave death and suffering, that they feed off it somehow and need to perpetually create it to get their fix. Beyond a certain point there is little other explanation how they could bring themselves to keep creating so much horror...

- They need!
War is a business that keep the economy of several nations going, not only USA.

[Megaterio Llamas]

[Megaterio Llamas]

It was a different world then; you guys would not recognize it. A real-life proven CT theory (the Gulf of Tonkin Incident) was staged (and later admitted to by US government) to drag the US into full military engagement. Meanwhile (get this!!) American broadcast news media was the international gold standard for truth and accuracy in reporting and American families were subjected to hard core, embedded reporting by seasoned professionals including, for the first time, footage of dead bodies on the ground. It was the editorial decision of the networks, especially CBS, that the American public should not be spared the horrific realities of war, no matter how ugly - that they may make a gasp!! - informed opinion about the situation. Networks and newspapers alike had foreign bureaus across the globe supported by huge budgets. People wanted real information!

Of course, as the war dragged on, the slant of the coverage became more and more negative, downright anti-war by the seventies with CBS and Walter Cronkite taking the lead position. Dinner table discussion about the war was commonplace after a gruesome the latest half hour telecast - middle class families tried to hide their sons in universities (Dick Cheney hid for ten years!) but the draft lottery system often got them anyway - many fled to Canada, which welcomed them with open arms. Anti war riots broke out all across the country, with the universities being the hub of the organizing to oppose the war. Popular music was at it's creative peak - drug use was rampant as Thai sticks and cheap heroin was everywhere, LSD was in vogue. It was wild.