John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY LINH DINH IN THE UNZ REVIEW
“Dien Bien Phu”
https://www.unz.com/ldinh/dien-bien-phu/#comment-3715751
An interesting and well-written article. Some fascinating anecdotes.
It is of course a measure of America's arrogance that despite the nature of this battle, they proceeded with taking on the Vietnamese.
Of course, they paid a price, but as with most things America does abroad, the price they paid was small compared to the horrors they inflicted.
Roughly 60 thousand Americans dead versus an estimated 3 million Vietnamese in a true holocaust which also left behind a savage legacy of Agent Orange and landmines.
America's efforts also created the space for Cambodia's "killing fields" by toppling what had been a neutral government.
So, add another million or so souls.
And what has America done in recent years?
Terrorize most of the Middle East and kill a couple of million more with its Neocon Wars, creating many millions of refugees and again leaving behind horrors such as enough depleted uranium dust to kill people for decades to come.
