Jim Stillman
NevarIt's time to shout
January 10th 2011 19:43
Get the old “protest” signs from the attic.
In the 1960’s America, and especially its younger citizens, convinced a President that re-election was doubtful, that prosecution of a war in far-off Asia was a mistake and had to come to an end and that trying to prop up a weak, corrupt government with little or no support from the indigenous peoples of South Vietnam was impossible. We left Viet Nam and wonder, now, how we could have wasted the lives of so many of our brave military. So we left and the world has not ended; moreover the city of Saigon, renamed Ho Chi Minh City, is prosperous, the destination of much investment and a standard of living that exceed the rest of Vietnam. It is, in short, remarkably capitalist
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In the 1960’s America, and especially its younger citizens, convinced a President that re-election was doubtful, that prosecution of a war in far-off Asia was a mistake and had to come to an end and that trying to prop up a weak, corrupt government with little or no support from the indigenous peoples of South Vietnam was impossible. We left Viet Nam and wonder, now, how we could have wasted the lives of so many of our brave military. So we left and the world has not ended; moreover the city of Saigon, renamed Ho Chi Minh City, is prosperous, the destination of much investment and a standard of living that exceed the rest of Vietnam. It is, in short, remarkably capitalist
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