(...) The Americans should no longer keep silent. For politics and for humans in general, it's a rule, not exception, to err and even commit crimes. In humanistic civilizations, however, the key point is to come up with timely admissions. It's no doubt the Americans erred, not for letting the South Vietnamese Regime down as a result of their incompetence but for stabbing it in the back for the sake of a Ghost Government. Worse, by means of B52 bloody carpet bombings in the North at the end of the war, they used the Vietnamese people in the North as scapegoats to meet Beijing's requirements. Those bombings stood out as ugliest and meanest crimes against humans, being used not as an attempt to defeat the Communists but as an attempt to force the Vietnamese Communist Party to bow to Beijing and to come up with secret agreements for territorial concessions. Further, it's unlikely the Chinese invaded Vietnam's Paracel Islands without Uncle Sam's complicity. At this point, one of the post-Nixon American presidents should have spoken out apologizing to the Vietnamese people in both the North and the South. The Americans might flout a political regime that has collapsed but by no means should they flout a people that have fallen victim to duplicity by both man and history.
The fact that the American eagle can no longer take wing might be partly accounted for by such inexorable conscience debts.
Apology, of course, doesn't mean apology to the current political regime in Vietnam. Neither does it mean going placid, polite, gratifying, flattering, and respectful toward this political regime, one of the most rearward and awkward systems that's going against human evolutionary current. Apology doesn't mean, for the sake of a few American financial oligarchies, complicity with a corrupted, servile, and brutal political reality that's depriving the Vietnamese people of freedom, democracy, and virtue. Otherwise, it wouldn't be unlike substituting old mistakes with new ones, worse, more perilous, and far more reprehensible. It wouldn't be unlike adding new debts to unpaid ones. It should be mentioned that such terms as freedom and democracy discussed here have nothing in common with the terms American diplomats would use as rhetorical, empty, and treacherous slogans. Pragmatism is just a vice-product of oncoming national bankruptcy, not a solution. This doctrine would end up pushing the United States deeper in history's quagmire and threatening to disband its current cohesion with the fifty stars. That doctrine might surface as a symptom of a downhill episode of a civilization which simply follows natural laws: what is clustered by man would wind up broken up by nature. Among examples are Qin Shi Huang' Empire, the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the former Soviet Union. Coming soon might be the current China, the United States, who knows? Continents on Earth have been gradually split apart. Galaxies and universes keep running away from each other farther and farther. Human politics is no exception.
For the Vietnamese who lost their country, Uncle Sam still stands for a historic bleeding wound. Vietnam belongs to the Vietnamese people, not to those antipatriotic lackeys that keep flattering America and crawling before China at the same time. Instead of going on with new duplicity, America should soon give history an answer should it pride itself on being the world's greatest civilization(...)
As ever, the sun rises every morning in the East and sets every evening in the West. As ever, the famous sakura of Washington DC gracefully line the Tidal Basin at the National Cherry Blossom Festival in early spring,. As ever, on Mount Rushmore, the majestic faces of Richard Nixon and his successors quietly and proudly look out at the American blue sky with white clouds peacefully flowing year after year, season after season….without figuring out the American Doomsday looming on the horizon. As ever, American politicians go on boasting about values and ideals while totally unaware of what's going on in their own backyards. As ever, in the eyes of the Americans and many people in the rest of the world, American political institutions stand out presumable as the prototypes of human civilization regardless of the legacies of greed and oppression they support. No one knows where those alleged prototypes would take this civilization to, eventually(...)
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