Escalation - 1968 Film protesting LBJ's escalation in 'Nam

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"...30 some-odd years ago the people of America turned their backs on a just cause, confused and disheartened by sensationalized violence, biased reporting, and good intentions gone awry. They cried for peace and for an end to the killing. They thought that when we left, peace would come, and the killing would stop. But 2.5 million would die from land reforms, murder quotas ordered by the communist leaders, and brutal political oppression. Over a million people would flee the communist oppression and take to the sea, hoping for a better life somewhere else. Hundreds of thousands died at sea. The future the realists had so ominously predicted came to be, and the domino theory proved true enough.

After the Communist Party finished imparting their brutal oppression on the people of Vietnam, and with the west willfully silent, they moved onto Cambodia and Laos, killing 1.5 million people. They then focused their weapons and chains solely on Cambodia, bringing to power the perpetrators of the worst democide the world has ever seen, where 2-3 million Cambodians were murdered...

57,000 Americans lost their lives defending the people of South Vietnam but history has proven their cause just, albeit imperfect. South Vietnam stood alone for two years; with minor material support it could have defended itself indefinitely, just as South Korea has for nearly 50 years. Activists and protesters have been as silent as the 7.5 million murdered by the Vietnamese Communist government and its proxies.

If there is a lesson to be learned from the Vietnam War that is applicable today, it is to not abandon a people in their darkest hour."


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