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From: Robert Vokoun
T1: jvokoun@ix.netcom.com
Date: 10/30/97
Time: 10:24:36 PM
Remote Name: 204.32.198.85
I came on here to see if any of my messages had gotten replied too yet. Instead I found this interesting, insightful, and in its own way funny post. To make things fair I have turned on my own fan to make things even. Powell does make things look cruel and dumb, but that is his point. You can't disguise a war with cans of peaches or bars of chocolate. The bullets were real, the bombs were real, the dying was real. How could you expect the Vietnamese to like you if you bomb them, kill them, and rape them. Lets not forget what we did to their land. I know I may sound very anti-war but I am not. Just that in this case we were wrong. I should rather say the government was wrong. In most passages people have said that the aerial bombardment along with helicopter sniping was necessary for the situation. I would like to disagree with this fact. In the Revolutionary war this would amount to the bombing of all American coastal cities by the British. This never happened and in fact the goal of the British was to pacify a rebellion by us, the Americans (those of us who consider ourselves as Americans that is). The truth is that many innocent villagers died because troops found it fun to kill them. This may be a sick thought, and it is, but it is true. This is a documented in narratives by Viet vets. War is interesting thing when it comes down to men. Some men became addicted to war, they didn't want to leave; they wanted to stay and fight. I believe Nam by Mark Baker and Rogue Warrior by Richard Marchinko to be two books that document this phenomenom. The people in Vietnam were not human beings, they were targets.