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Apr 1, 2004 Of the two extremely important Vietnam War results, one has been completely ignored by left-leaning "scholars," writing their many books about the war. The ignored result is that the Vietnam effort was the "last straw" on the backs of Russian Communism, eventually crushing its world-domination movement. The Russian "Bolshevik" branch of Communism supplied both the Korean and Vietnamese Communists with guns, ammunition, expensive MIG fighter planes, and enormous amounts of other supplies. In both Vietnam and Korea, the Russians ran out of steam and were replaced by the Chinese, but not until tremendous strains had been put on the Russian economy, preventing it from ever getting ahead of the game in the production of civilian goods. Russia was internationally borrowing more and more billions of dollars to buy wheat and meat, and they finally realized they were falling behind further every year, so they quit altogether. Those expensive military supplies were donated to Vietnam at the very peak of Russian production, which went downhill from then on. The Korean War and the space race contributed to this, but Vietnam was the final climax that turned into a downfall. (We should have won the Korean War by bombing the Yalu Bridges, and we should have won the Vietnam War by occupying the supply pathways in Laos and Cambodia, as I pointed out in my Treasonous Democrats column. But we were too worried about irritating the Chinese, and that's another story.) The other important result of the Vietnam War, which is reported in left-leaning books as a good thing rather than a bad one, is the triggering of the Hippy Revolution. The anti-war movement of the 1960s was a response to Vietnam, and it grew to become an entire culture of rebellion, glorification of jungle music, and other lower class cultural traits (illegal drugs, extramarital sex and childbirth, ridiculous symbols such as untied shoes, etc.) plus pacifism. Massive atrocities committed by Communists were ignored. However, the few committed by our frustrated troops (faced with "civilians" tossing hand grenades) were put on the front page. The whole Women's Liberation movement was propelled to extreme levels by the Hippy philosophy, resulting in our present culture-destroying situation, where unwed mothers are becoming the majority. It all started at Columbia University, mainly by Margaret Mead, with her utter lies about the South Sea Islands. (Examples are "female dominance" among the Arapesh and "free sex" among the Samoans --- both are utter lies, as you can see if you read the books I refer to in my Women's Liberation column, visible at the link shown above.) The cultural values of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and other greats who built this country are surely being eroded by the leftist cults. I doubt that we could have won the Wars in 1776 and 1945 if we had the philosophy being taught to our youths by the leftist teachers in our schools now. I doubt that we could have built up our present capitalist prosperity if the leftist economics teachers had always been there. Communism is still dominant in China and southeast Asia, and we might have to fight some kind of war to dethrone it, in order for us to survive. I hope the "war" will be commercial, rather than military. Fortunately, Russia with its thousands of missiles and tanks is not threatening us this time, thanks to the Vietnam War, which was the last straw on the back of Bolshevism. ------------ About the author: Visit his website or email Dan Shanefield: shanefield@ieee.org Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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