"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Sailor (03-16-2018)
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
ThatOwlWoman (03-16-2018)
Chicago Tribune
There seems to be disagreement as to how the Vietnamese feel about Americans today- and Vietnamese views are not exactly up front and centre.'It was insanity': Vietnam commemorates 50 years since over 500 slaughtered in My Lai massacre
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...story,amp.html
Anybody got any meaningful links ?
( Phoney ' forgive-and-forgetters need not apply )
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
The spitting myth has been debunked numerous times. It's interesting that it only became a popular meme when the Gulf War I began. You're right about the "cottage industry." This is why, beginning with Gulf War I, the military has clamped down on live reporting and has heavily censored reporters who are allowed to accompany troops. My main recollection of watching the coverage of GW I on CNN was tons of footage about the armaments being used, occasional distant footage of aerial bombardments, Israel- and Saudi-based reporters cowering when Scuds were incoming -- but no gritty realistic in-your-face real life warfare footage like we saw on TV every night during the VN War. They learned their lesson that allowing the ppl back home to see what war is really like is going to make war really unpopular.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07...-american-gis/
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