gordon duff, a vietnam combat veteran, speaks herein about the military adventures the empire is involved in, and how they got there;

Supposedly, back on April 7, 1775, Samuel Johnson stated the following:

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Since that time, every attempt has been made to mischaracterize this statement by Johnson, to “excuse it,” or obfuscate about it.

Personally, I think Johnson was clear.

Half a century ago, I was in South Vietnam as a Marine combat infantryman. Even then, I knew the history of the conflict, to an extent anyway, having read Bernard Fall’s Two Vietnams and Street Without Joy, the latter I found sitting in the library on the USS Cleveland, a naval ship used by Marines for beach assaults on “enemy held” regions of South Vietnam.

The truth, of course, is that the US was in South Vietnam to prevent an election that the US was a signatory to and guarantor for, in accordance with the Geneva Conference of 1954 which covered both issues of Korea and Indochina.

The real source of the fighting was the oppressive Diem regime in Saigon that operated as an oppressive dictatorship, outlawing Buddhist religious practices, banning newspapers, and imprisoning and executing tens of thousands.

Americans weren’t in Vietnam fighting communists but rather the NLF, the National Liberation Front, not the Communist Viet Minh but rather the Viet Cong, which represented a wide variety of political groups.

The US largely defeated this organization but, as the US fled Vietnam, that nation was then taken over by communists, as the US had defeated the democratic organizations in a war that eventually killed 2.2 million Americans.

Many of those, countless numbers, died of shame...........https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/05/will-america-die-of-shame/