HISTORY RE-WRITTEN

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by Morley Evans

KEN BURNS' DOCUMENTARY, the Vietnam War, tells viewers the war was a tragedy. It was a mistake, he says. That is Burns' theme. Ngo Dinh Diem, his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu and his sister-in-law, known as the heartless Madam Nhu were evil people who exploited the South Vietnamese people, Burns tells us. Was it a mistake? From 1945 onward, the United States of America has always installed and supported people exactly like Diem. There have been dozens of them all around the world. Read historian William Blum for a detailed chronicle. The United States has been a dirty dealer throughout its life. Here are a few examples.

The Shah of Iran (1953) was installed after Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown by a coup that was personally organised by Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of President Theodor Roosevelt (R). The Somoza dynasty ruled Nicaragua from 1927 to 1979. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) was told that Somoza was a son of a bitch, the President replied, "Yes, but he's our son of a bitch." The Republic of China was led by Chiang Kai-shek 1928-1975. He was driven from the mainland by Mao in 1949. Syngman Rhee was America's strongman in Korea when the Korean War began in 1950. The Zionist entity that dares to call itself "Israel" has had unequivocal U.S. support since 1948. Fast forwarding to the present, Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian Nazis now rule the Ukraine after a CIA coup d'état ousted democratically-elected Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Georgia preceded Ukraine. They are part of the United States' on-going war on Russia.

The Vietnam debacle was business as usual.

Napalmed Vietnamese children (AP, Saigon) Kim Phuc centre

Today, the Donald J. Trump regime threatens to re-open the Korean War "to save the world," again. This madness never stops.

The Killing of History
By John Pilger

I watched the first episode in New York. It leaves you in no doubt of its intentions right from the start. The narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings”.

The dishonesty of this statement is not surprising. The cynical fabrication of “false flags” that led to the invasion of Vietnam is a matter of record – the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in 1964, which Burns promotes as true, was just one. The lies litter a multitude of official documents, notably the Pentagon Papers, which the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg released in 1971.

There was no good faith. The faith was rotten and cancerous. For me — as it must be for many Americans — it is difficult to watch the film’s jumble of “red peril” maps, unexplained interviewees, ineptly cut archive and maudlin American battlefield sequences.

In the series’ press release in Britain — the BBC will show it — there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans. “We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying.  How very post-modern.

All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American media and popular culture behemoth has revised and served up the great crime of the second half of the twentieth century: from The Green Berets and The Deer Hunter to Rambo and, in so doing, has legitimised subsequent wars of aggression.  The revisionism never stops, and the blood never dries. The invader is pitied and purged of guilt, while “searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy”. Cue Bob Dylan: “Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?” [With God On Our Side]

I thought about the “decency” and “good faith” when recalling my own first experiences as a young reporter in Vietnam: watching hypnotically as the skin fell off Napalmed peasant children like old parchment and the ladders of bombs that left trees petrified and festooned with human flesh. General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to people as “termites”.

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