Kill anything that moves
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
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- And I would recommend Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12292260-kill-anything-t...
- I remember listening to this on citations pod couple of years ago. https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-hollywood-and-...
they also had a similar coverage of Copaganda in media: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-the-growing-pu...
btw this has been going on for a while. I recently finished an excellent compilation of Vietnam war realities & lies in a book called 'kill anything that moves' & its basically the same propaganda machine reshaping public perception for its benefits.
- Although I despise Kissinger, I'm not sure it's fair to put it all responsibility on him. There is more blame to go around.
Author is Nick Turse. I can recommend his 'Kill Anything That Moves' as a good book on the Vietnam War.
- That is pure unresearched wishful thinking.
They would fly helicopters up to farmers on a field who would look up at them in confusion and do nothing. Then they'd turn on a siren and when the farmers scattered they shot them all down for taking "evasive action", making them "combatants". There'd be reports of raids with hundreds of "viet cong" killed and a few weapons recovered. The killing machine was about body counts. Kissinger ordered "anything that flies on everything that moves." Villages were leveled in indiscriminate, massive bombing campaigns that exceeded twice the ordinance dropped in WWII. Millions were killed.
If you really want to research what happened in Vietnam start with Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves.[1] It's a polemical title but it's based on a ton of primary research, e.g. the Pentagon's War Crimes Working Group and the National Archives and interviews with over a hundred veterans. And that stuff will make any good soul polemical.
- >I went through the US educational system and while we know about the Vietnam war, the protesters, this is definitely not the picture of the war that we were given.
I just want to be one anecdotal voice to disagree with this statement. I went to a city university and my American history class 1945-present included a curriculum with media such as:
A People's History of the United States
The Fog of War (documentary)
Hearts and Minds (documentary)
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Gary R. Hess, Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War.
Nick Turse. Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
I know some of my friends took courses where the Vietnam War was referred to pejoratively as the American War. We learned about My Lai in high school even. Where did you go to school that the Vietnam War was glossed over in such a pro-American way? Maybe it's a regional thing? I was educated on the east coast.
- One of the best books to read to get a feel for how America commits its war crimes is Kill Anything that Moves about the Vietnam war.
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American-eboo...
