Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers

bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just need a few more million tons of bombs bro. Then the NVA will finally realize that WE’RE the good guys bro.

  – Robert McNamara (Probably)

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• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Fog of War is a damn good documentary. I watched it in a college class about the Vietnam War, and that class absolutely radicalized me. There was zero reason for the US to be there.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is indeed a great documentary. Ironically, McNamara happily agreed to be interviewed for it. I haven’t seen it in over 20 years, but I just remembered being absolutely repulsed at how completely unfeeling the dude was about everything.

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Along with Kissinger and Nixon.

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