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| A Vietnam War Remnants Museum (Saigon) photo of a victim of a white phosphorus bomb used by the USA against the Vietnamese |
| I apologise if some people find this photo shocking. War does terrible things to people, would it be better if we lived more in ignorance of how shocking some of those terrible things can be, or is it better to face the terrible facts? |
The USA is guilty of committing many terrible war crimes in its efforts to win this war, but they lost it. The Vietnamese communists 'won' the war, but now - thirty years later - Vietnam is fast changing to a capitalist system. Four million were killed during that war, 7000 have been killed since the war, and still ten people are injured each month by left over mines and cluster bombs in Quang Tri province alone. The damage to Vietnam's people and environment was horrendous. What did the war achieve for either side?
One might have hoped that the USA and Australia would have learned from the Vietnam war that war can be futile. Even this did not happen. The governments of both countries stupidly started an equally futile war in Iraq in 2003.
The fact is that actual war didn't come out of the Cold War.
Is the world any
worse off for that? Would anyone now say that the USA should have made a
nuclear strike against the USSR, or vice-versa? Is it possible that the
world might be a better place if the Cold War became WW3?
More can be read on the futility of war at
Rense.com.