Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Responding to this:
This is half-true:
the war in Vietnam was being won on the ground even as it was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress.
It was won in both places in that the Soviet was prevented from turning the southwestern flank of the US defensive littoral.
Similar situation in Iraq:
To grasp the reality, we have to look at the strategic goal, which is (1) to depose Saddam, a violent tyrant (done), (2) establish freedom in the Middle East (specifically for women, same as in Japan in 1945) in Arab nations and (3) encircle Iran (which is far more dangerous — they are Aryans, like us — than any congeries of Arabs or Africans, including al Qaeda).
Arabs and Africans are unable to sustain activity. They must time-out for lying, cheating and idling, boozing, drugs and rump ranging.
Update 1: Why We Were In Vietnam
Update 2: Barry McCaffrey: The Forgotten South Vietnamese Airborne
Related: McCaffrey with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Update 3: Scott Johnson on the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary with more from Scott here and here and here and here.
Update 4: Ken Burns’ Warped Mirror
Update 5: Bing West: The Vietnam War Documentary: Gloom And Despair
Update 6: Vietnam Veterans Set the Record Straight After PBS TV Series Whitewashes Communism
Update 7: David Archibald: Advice for Our Vietnamese Friends on China
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
