Friday, June 1, 2012

Boycott Arizona! And buy all your appliances and Internet gadgets from companies that make them in third-world dictatorships (China), where slave labor is still a reality, and the governments provide political cover for even worse third-world dictatorships (North Korea and Iran)  intent on building weapons of mass destruction for use on... guess who.

Sorry, I can't help myself. I believe in global warming... created by methane from all the high priced manure being shovelled in this country.
They walked the rounds in on us
methodically adjusting the range

just like we'd been trained to do
TANKS! Sweet Mary! Mother of God!
They have TANKS!
-- Battle for the Dong Ha Bridge, South Vietnam, 1972

A Arizona Republci letter writer blames LBJ, McNamara and America for the debacle in Vietnam that took so many lives, omitting Richard Nixon for some reason. It would be great consolation after all these years, not simply to be thanked as veterans for our service, but also at long last to have someone admit that America alone should not shoulder the blame for the war. Ask yourselves where the North Vietnamese got 200 tanks supported by large numbers of artillery guns for the attack on the Dong Ha Bridge in South Vietnam, for example. The war lasted so long and to such devastating effect because of material support from the Soviet Union and Communist Chinese. North Vietnam's total intransigence and complete disregard for Vietnamese lives in pursuing its political aims was beyond the Pale of human decency, surpassed only by the fascists in World War II. Although portrayed as the forces of light by America's left, the North Vietnamese Communists have after all these years yet to hold a free election. Shame on Intel for building manufacturing plants in countries that refused to embrace democracy. Shame on those who mouth platitudes about freedom while demanding boycotts of Arizona, when companies who make America's Internet gadgets locate manufacturing plants in dictatorships like Vietnam.