Dangerous Times: ISIS: The End of Denial

James Lewis / American Thinker

The Vietnam War was won by American forces in the field, together with South Vietnamese, but it was lost in the media.  Even forty years ago the media were largely penetrated by the hard left, which has its real sympathies with Marxist internationalism; it is ideologically anti-national, as is plainly stated in its founding works, like Marx’s and Engels’ Communist Manifesto of 1848.

The left won the Vietnam War using photographic images of the horrors of war, but very selectively, showing only one side of the carnage.  The most memorable image showed a little girl, naked, fleeing toward the photographer in horror.  In a sense, that image defeated America and South Vietnam.  Dramatic images go straight through our verbal defenses, which is why both movies and “news” photography focus on emotive images rather than rational thinking.

The Democrats deprived South Vietnam of American aid, and the result was another classic image: the last helicopters lifting off the roof or the US Embassy in Saigon, with desperate Vietnamese trying to cling to the undercarriage.  They were doomed to be executed by the North Vietnamese invaders.

The media never cared that hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Boat People were rescued by American vessels for years afterwards, fleeing Ho Chi Minh’s concentration camps and mass executions, economic mismanagement, and starvation.  The American left always caused the morally most cruel and destructive side to win, just as they supported Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.  The left always claims compassion and covers up mass murders.  It is standard operating procedure.

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