Mark Phillips: The American Question
4/1/03: Good morning, Vietnam.
We already seen this movie. Yes?
We've all seen this photograph before. Many times. People my age grew up with it: the front
page, every day.
U.S. Marines search a foreign village. Looking for weapons, or contact with enemy guerillas.
Ambush happens at any moment. The locals view them as invaders, and they fight, as you or I
would, to free their country, using whatever means come to hand to neutralize their unholy
inferiority in weapons and technology.
Whether it be Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Lebanon, or Iran,
or wherever else our incompetent and power-mad rulers send us, the
people will resist our occupation, as the Vietnamese did, and for many of the same reasons.
The Vietnamese fought for generations to free their country of foreign occupation. Ho Chi
Minh's father participated in an uprising against colonialism which the French authorities,
with their superior technology and their refined sense of civilization, crushed in blood.
It took 90 years and millions of deaths to achieve their victory.
How long before the Islamic peoples of the world are free of us? How many will
die before their victory is won?
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