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They'd Kill Those Vietnamese etc., All Over Again
Without Blinking An Eyelash

By Jay Janson

11 March, 2011
Countercurrents.org

Sixty years of the messy butchering of designed ‘bad guys’ in poor countries is a proud part of the American Way of Life. Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Jim Lehrer, George Stephanopoulos, Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Rachel Maddow protect this tradition as did Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, Ted Koppel, Harry Reasoner and company reporting on Vietnam

Vietnamese, Koreans, Iraqis, Laotians, Afghanis, Dominicans, Panamanians, Pakistanis, Lebanese, Cubans, Somalis , Yemenis, Grenadians, etc. - Americans would kill those millions all over again without it disrupting their church services, baseball, football, basketball, tennis, golf and partying one single moment.

Those Asians, and Latin Americans, dead, maimed and made homeless far away in their own countries for having fallen in harms way of Americans in uniform with weapons of mass destruction, are just not relevant to daily life in the U.S.A.

All the overt bombings, invasions and military occupation of ‘foreign’ ‘trouble spots’ are sold on TV ‘news’ programs sandwiched in between the infinitely more numerous commercials advertising the consumer products
that ARE relevant to the American way of life.

Even less relevant to ‘The American Dream’ was CIA’s covert murderous violence within Indonesia, Congo, Guatemala, Iran, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Philippines and Greece upon the orders of U.S. Presidents that successfully arranged for a much greater number of millions to die for ‘American interests.’

How many Americans are sick and tired of hearing their politicians praised as heroes for having ‘served’ in Vietnam during those fifteen years of bloody crimes against humanity? How many Americans are pissed at seeing those beautiful photos of smiling young men paraded on the screen with with words of sanctimonious admiration for their having “given their lives to defend us?” In the real world,they gave their short lives to kill Afghanis in Afghanistan and Iraqis in Iraq because Saudi Arabians flew our planes into the World Trade Center.

How many Americans are sick of it? Its the same number of them who get their news from the Internet and therefore commiserate with whistle-blower Private Bradley Manning sleeping and standing inspection naked, and are anguished for the inexpressible pain of the families of the nine little boys killed from the air while they gathered firewood on a hillside in Afghanistan.

When Americans get up from their computers and turn back to those confidently self-righteous voices and ernest and honest appearing facial expressions of Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Mathews, Jim Lehrer, and the intensely caring sisterly appearance of Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Rachel Maddow and other attractive lady anchors, who, for all their projected humanity have managed to have their viewers accept years of America and Americans killing in five Muslims countries that were already impoverished to start with, for their long history of colonial exploitation.

The older generation within the above mentioned minority of people who are savvy about this horrible American way of life that includes death for others remembers well, how Dan Rather, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, Ted Koppel, Harry Reasoner and company reporting on Vietnam created a deep hard-hat appreciation for the many years of U.S. military action there and an understanding for the earlier eight years of paying the French Colonial Army to do the bloodletting.

Now that minority of Americans realize that these sixty odd years of messy butchering designated suspected ‘bad guys’ in poor countries has been made an integral and proud part of the American way of life. And they sure that if it was again in ‘U.S. interests,’ Americans would kill them Vietnamese, et al., all over again without blinking an eyelash.

The world should hold U.S. presidents responsible under the Principles of the Nuremberg Trials: Principle #3: "The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."

Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England, India and the US, and now resides in New York City.


 


 




 


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