douglaschick0's Blog

lastly, we have been in Germany now for half a century ,why aren't the liberal elitist protesting that? We are also in England ,Kuwait ,japan , the Philippines and south Korea. All, except Kuwait , have been nearly 40 years of occupation by us!!! . Those countries don't complain and neither do the liberal elite,so why are they having such a hard time with Vietnam and now IRAQ? hmmmmm

I thought the Vietnam War began because of a conflict involving the US commitment to continue supporting French Imperialism and promising freedom to EDIT Chi Minh following his help during WWII... interesting that you think we went to war because of collective bargaining efforts...

EDIT Chi Minh actually went in front of the League of Nations to request protection and help turning Vietnam democratic like the nation he most revered... the USA. He had drafted his Constitution following ours... but was turned down and forced to seek help from USSR.

Is there any correlation? Yes. Certain people are either capable, not capable, or unwilling to adopt our way of life (or basically the fundamentals of our Constitution). I don’t think Iraqis are up to the task of converting from being dictated to thinking for themselves, namely because their religion, Islam, is an integral part of their political philosophy. Fundamental Islam and democracy/republics cannot coincide. I don’t know that the Viet-Kong had a religious doctrine that they held high, but they were obviously more strident in their efforts. The people as a whole were not an industrial one, and therefore didn’t have the economic ambitions (which are of the strongest ambitions) the US hoped they’d have. Besides the religious aspect of Iraq, the same could be said about Iraqis. They sit on a bed of black gold, and they don’t even capture it.