This days we mark the fall of Saigon and the end of a very long war for the west as well as for the east. The vietnamise wanted to be that vietnamese, not French not American but Vietnamese. It took a very long time for that to settle in the minds of the leadership of North America.
In the nineteen eighties I was a student in a boarding school in Baltimore Maryland, and the American society was coming to terms with that black episode of American History. People were asking questions and developing answers to them, something very wrong happened over there and people were hurt in the psyche. People wanted to close that episode and go on with their lives.
If you wondered to a public library there were all sorts of books about the Vietnam war, but what society was hard at work was at understanding the mistakes made and learning the lessons that could be learned from it.
And that was exactly what happened in the military as well as in civil society.
But time has passed and the history is repeating itself all over again. Irak and Afghanistan have become Vietnam all over again.The lessons that were learned with so much sorrow has been forgotten a generation later.
The script is repeating itself all over again first the west comes in and wants to create western democracies of eastern peoples that never had nor wanted democracy. That comes to a point were the west packs its bags and all hell brakes loose.
Irak, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen Afghanistan Somalia, Syria to name a few have become just lines in a map with virtually no central government and no rule of law. And the west has been in a bigger or smaller form responsible for it.
The East was ruled by strong dictators, there was peace and people were not killing each other. It was not democracy but it worked. Comes in the West preaching democracy helping the people to get rid of the dictators only to leave a vacuum of power that has degenerated in civil war all over the middle east.
Even the so called beaten army of Saadam Hussein has reemerged in the form of ISIS.!!
This is the lesson of Vietnam: Eastern peoples do not think like western peoples!! they do not want the western way. They want to be themselves and they want to be left to be.
No matter how many battles the west has won in the EAST the result is the same the WAR is lost and the western armies retreat to the west and leaves the east to work it out on its own.
President Obama has inherited a bad situation and has become much worst.
Today the big winner has been IRAN, and a new PERSIAN EMPIRE is in the works.
The middle east today is a much worst place than ten years ago.
Like I said Is Vietnam all over again.
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