Mural painting Reunification Palace, HoChiMinh CityBy Dr Abe V Rotor
In Retrospect, the US apologizes,
“We were wrong, terribly wrong."
Wrong for three million Vietnamese,
Half a million Americans and allies killed;
Wrong for spending trillions of dollars,
For dropping bombs four times over
That in the last World War.
Wrong for not saving America from another Great Depression
At the expense of escalating a local war.
All in the name of democracy,
A slogan sans conscience, sans piety.
How could it be true, “To err is human, to forgive divine?”
After Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan,
And another generation to explain why.
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1 comment:
If you think about it, is the intention of the US purely "in the name of democracy" or something else that is extremely beneficial for their country, like economical resources perhaps.
History tells the stories of thousands of wars of different lifetimes, all because of a few powerful men's beliefs or mistakes.
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