WorldNetDaily Saturday July 21st: It's funny how two people can read the same thing and come away with two strikingly different conclusions of it.Like veteran columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, I, too, read the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine with its 40-year-old memo about Vietnam, which the editors suggest contains lessons about our current quagmire in Iraq.
But, unlike Geyer, I have not allowed revisionist historians to impose their version of Vietnam on me.
In her most recent nationally syndicated column, she writes this about Vietnam: "After the Americans withdrew, in momentary humiliation, from the coasts of Vietnam by ship and helicopter, there were few regional consequences of the foolhardy war. No other country in Asia became communist, as Washington's 'domino theory' had long predicted; in fact, the communist giant, China, followed the Singapore economic model of controlled economic freedom instead of Marxism's state control."
Trouble is, everything Geyer writes about the aftermath of Vietnam is a lie. Like me, Geyer lived through this history. She is a respected commentator. How could she so mangle such a well-documented period of recent history? continues after my comment
History that most Americans are taught , or should I say were taught in the 5th and 6th grade as I and my classmates at Woodbrook Elementary in Charlottesville VA were as it was occurring essentially back in the mid 70's. Where and when it is that these liberal anti-American folks began to brainwash themselves into forgetting this history is a mystery to me.
Does this happen from too many acid trips or bong hits? I dunno, but they forget it somehow because this is what happened:
- Few regional consequences? Does this jog your memory? The long-predicted bloodbath in South Vietnam became reality when North Vietnam invaded. Some 600,000 Vietnamese drowned in the South China Sea attempting to escape. Tens of thousands more were imprisoned in "re-education" camps, and millions more were forced to live under unimaginable forms of tyranny for the rest of their lives.
- No other country in Asia became communist? An amazing oversight since neighboring Cambodia not only went communist under the Khymer Rouge, but suffered one of the worst genocides in history as a result. Remember the Killing Fields, Georgie Anne? Some 2 million were murdered as a direct result of Pol Pot's policies. His inspirations? Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung.
- Did she actually mention China and "controlled economic freedom" in the same breath? In China today there are no individual property rights. There are no "rights" at all – only privileges bestowed upon people through favoritism by government. While China's economy is thriving, it is thriving in the same way the economy did in Adolf Hitler's Germany – through "controlled socialism," or fascism – not "controlled freedom," a gross misnomer if I have ever head one.
Geyer's gross distortion of reality in Vietnam would be bad enough if she were only covering up the 35-year-old genocide of Communists in Southeast Asia. That would be horrific. But her Walter Duranty-style apologia for Pol Pot and his gang has consequences today. continues
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