Latest Pentagon Folly, a $30 million Sanitized, Revisionist History of the Vietnam War

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Latest-Pentagon-Folly-a--by-Dave-Lefcourt-America_Antiwar_Movement_Pentagon-Propaganda-141017-746.html

Latest Pentagon Folly, a $30 million Sanitized, Revisionist History of the Vietnam War
By Dave Lefcourt
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/17/2014 at 13:29:25

Re-writing history-or in today's parlance" revisionism"-particularly military history is something all countries contrive to do, portraying their "history" favorably, all their actions "patriotic", defending the "mother" country, "fatherland" or here in the US our military "fighting for us", defending "America" and now the "homeland".

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Cohn writes, "For many years after the Vietnam War, we enjoyed the 'Vietnam syndrome', in which US presidents hesitated to launch substantial military attacks on other countries. They feared intense opposition akin to the powerful movement that helped bring an end to the war in Vietnam. But in 1991, at the end of the Gulf War, George H.W. Bush declared, 'By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all".

"With George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Barack Obama's drone wars in seven Muslim-majority countries and his escalating wars in Iraq and Syria, we have apparently moved beyond the Vietnam syndrome. By planting disinformation in the public realm, the government has built support for its recent wars, as it did with Vietnam."

Replete with a fancy interactive website( http://www.vietnamwar50th.com/ ), the effort is aimed at teaching schoolchildren a revisionist history of the war. The program is focused on honoring our service members who fought in Vietnam. But conspicuously absent from the website is a description of the antiwar movement, at the heart of which was the GI movement".

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. One of the downsides of the web, darn it

Can be used to spread mis-information.

Parents, teach your children well, pls.