the juxtaposition evidently shows the absurdity of the period - people giving their lives while others are just living the good life back home. But you see a military-industrial complex sending boys to die in a jungle and you hate the kids back home?
To me it makes me think there a bunch of don’t know how lucky they are. Have the right to criticise there government but the people of north and and Vietnam can’t even do anything negative to there government who where conscripting men as young as 14 to go and fight.
@@nunyaplayz Yes but it could have lead to a Democratic style government like a South Korea. If it had a few decades of time to move into something that in the end was something to fight to preserve.
@@arthurvane3901 when Buddhist monks are setting themselves on fire in protest against the south Catholic government and when poor families were giving there jewellery to 'THE STRUGGLE' all was lost. Ngo Dinh Diem his brother and wife were horrible. 'PUPET GOVERNMENT' whoever America favoured got in
Even then, when you try to establish a style of government like Democracy in a country with high unemployment, high numbers of illiteracy and a stagnating agricultural economy there's two ways it can go: it either devloves into a US puppet dictature or it can industralize, but then it becomes a sort of corporate oligarchy. You can see that example very well with S Korea because it went through two of those steps!
not necessarily true. during that time, the u.s. govt supported some truly horrific dictatorships that happened to be anti-communist (e.g. pinochet in chile, shah in iran).
“His people hold him in honor and highest esteem. He has given his life for the people, and the country, he loved so much”.
ken burns documentaries are amazing and un biast this Vietnam set is remarkable
History is repeating itself as we speak
In my stupid opinion....World War I never ended. It seems the planet has been in continuous conflict ever since.
I like the juxtaposition. Makes me respect hippies a little less
the juxtaposition evidently shows the absurdity of the period - people giving their lives while others are just living the good life back home. But you see a military-industrial complex sending boys to die in a jungle and you hate the kids back home?
To me it makes me think there a bunch of don’t know how lucky they are. Have the right to criticise there government but the people of north and and Vietnam can’t even do anything negative to there government who where conscripting men as young as 14 to go and fight.
@@arthurvane3901 well, isnt that a good thing? To protest a pointless war where people were sent to die when the us invaded a foreign country?
Yeah, if only we had sent more boys like Mogie to die in Vietnam. Damn, hippies!
Afganistan 2021
You know if they had successes in the war there might be another Democratic country in south east Asia.
the south of Vietnam wasnt democratic it was a dictatorship corrupt to the core
@@nunyaplayz Yes but it could have lead to a Democratic style government like a South Korea. If it had a few decades of time to move into something that in the end was something to fight to preserve.
@@arthurvane3901 when Buddhist monks are setting themselves on fire in protest against the south Catholic government and when poor families were giving there jewellery to 'THE STRUGGLE' all was lost. Ngo Dinh Diem his brother and wife were horrible. 'PUPET GOVERNMENT' whoever America favoured got in
Even then, when you try to establish a style of government like Democracy in a country with high unemployment, high numbers of illiteracy and a stagnating agricultural economy there's two ways it can go: it either devloves into a US puppet dictature or it can industralize, but then it becomes a sort of corporate oligarchy. You can see that example very well with S Korea because it went through two of those steps!
not necessarily true. during that time, the u.s. govt supported some truly horrific dictatorships that happened to be anti-communist (e.g. pinochet in chile, shah in iran).