NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok, I've been monitoring this forum like a (chicken)hawk for two days now. Not a peep! A man who took command in Vietnam in 1964 and held it to 1968 doesn't need a NS threadl!?!

A man who considered pulling out of Vietnam was a LOSS, betraying the South Vietnamese. A man who sued the CBS and Mike Wallace for libel for 120 million is not worth a thread?

In some countries they sing songs in honour of such generals...

Ok. Have it your way...

its a good time to recommend the 1974 oscar winning documentary "hearts and minds" (available at netflix)

An Academy Award-winning documentary that casts a sharp eye toward the U.S. government's costly -- in terms of lives, budget and honor -- all-out effort during the Vietnam War. Director Peter Davis uses his own war footage, newsreels, presidential speeches and interviews with the likes of Robert Kennedy, Gen. William Westmoreland and Daniel Ellsberg to provide a compelling argument against war.


you can see the man himself just as he was back then

General Westmoreland was an honorable man who was in the wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place ... just like those of us who served in his command. I hope he finally has some peace now.

The only one I will honor on July 20th is Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.