THE PRISONER. Banned Episode.

SKULL AND BONES....

we are ALL prisoners of the New World Order = ROTHCHILD FAMILY and company

check out the film ROTHCHILD'S CHOICE

fuck... that guy just shot someone on youtube

the network runs america

Xervosh23, I agree with you that Truman dropped the ball on this one. The U.S. financed France's rediculous Indochinal war, in which France more officers each year than they graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique. The real question becomes, at what point was America committed so deeply that it could not find a way out. In my opinion, the final straw that broke the camel's back was JFK's complicity (or perhaps direct involvement) in the murder of Diem and subsequent support of General Mihn.

"Living in Harmony" reminded me of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros." In both cases, people were used to deep stories which seemed inscrutable but, if analyzed, yielded a wealth of richness. But "Living in Harmony" and "Rhinoceros" were both shallow and trite.

Vietnam was not a single entity, it was three sovereign states which the French had squashed into one colony. Diem and later Thieu may have wanted to rule Tonkin but never claimed sovereignty thereover. Not even Bao Dai claimed sovereignty over the North following the 1954 Accords, however much he may have wanted to.

That's pretty bad, although there are some cute jokes in it, which redeem it a bit.

Truman wanted Vietnam to re-submit to French colonial rule. That was a very foolish miscalculation on his part, one which led perhaps almost inevitably to our involvement in the Vietnam War, and from there, almost inevitably to our side's defeat, due to the easily predicted nationalist reaction to the presence of foreign ("imperialist") troops on what was perceived as sacred Vietnamese soil. Truman seriously dropped the ball on that one.

The Vietnamese were/are a very nationalistic people. It was probably always going to be true that whichever side accepted foreign troops on its soil, was going to be the losing side. Thus the USSR was smarter than the USA. Additionally, Ho Ch Minh was a nationalist first, and a Bolshevist second. He wanted to ally with the USA, but Truman rebuffed him, so he went with the USSR by necessity.