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02 Jun 2017 8:14 p.m. PST
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| Tango01 | 24 Jan 2017 3:51 p.m. PST |
…Nguyen. "The people of Vietnam and the people of America see the war fought in and over Vietnam very differently. For Americans, it's the Vietnam War and for the Vietnamese, it's the American War. The United States lost about 58,000 troops in combat and was left with a nation politically torn asunder. But the war also left three million Vietnamese troops and civilians dead as well as killing nearly one million Laotians and about two million Cambodians when figuring in those Cambodians lost during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Many more were wounded and displaced. And much of Southeast Asia was devastated by the machinery of the war, by the bullets and bombs and chemicals and savage workings of modern, large-scale, industrialized military operations. As Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen stresses in his new book, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard),those losses of millions of people in Southeast Asia are largely ignored in the American version of events. Yet, he explains, the war in Vietnam is remembered primarily and uncharacteristically from the perspective of the losers, from the viewpoint of the Americans who possess the industry and power to put out their version of the war to the world. When it comes to the memory of the cruel war in Vietnam, the U.S. won that battle…." Main page
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| emckinney | 24 Jan 2017 10:49 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 25 Jan 2017 11:05 a.m. PST |
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 Legion 4  | 25 Jan 2017 3:44 p.m. PST |
those losses of millions of people in Southeast Asia are largely ignored in the American version of events. Yet, he explains, the war in Vietnam is remembered primarily and uncharacteristically from the perspective of the losers, from the viewpoint of the Americans who possess the industry and power to put out their version of the war to the world. When it comes to the memory of the cruel war in Vietnam, the U.S. won that battle…." Is not that the primary reason for a military at war ? Inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, whoever they may be. And the US "their version of war to the world" … who else's version would the US "put out" ? And much of Southeast Asia was devastated by the machinery of the war, by the bullets and bombs and chemicals and savage workings of modern, large-scale, industrialized military operations. Well the US could have used muskets, rode horses and wear red uniforms … but we all know that would not have worked out too well. |
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