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**vorlon13** · September 19, 2017 at 9:30 am

The Buddhist Catholic thing was a major stunner for me. Didn't remember that part at all.

I did remember Madam Nhu being a total bitch . . . .

Gawdzilla Sama · September 19, 2017 at 10:08 am

(September 19, 2017 at 7:36 am)chimp3 Wrote: Napalm! A great way to show how much we care.

Shit-dipped punji sticks give you a warm and fuzzy?

**brewer** · September 19, 2017 at 11:48 am

I had no clue that a catholic individual/motivations/actions was the impetus behind the immolation of the buddhist monks.

**vorlon13** · September 19, 2017 at 12:41 pm

And the minority Catholic group running the country and literally telling the Buddhist majority to go fuck themselves.

Jeez, what a cluster fuck.

Am I correct French Catholic missionaries during their colonial era was the root of that ??

**vorlon13** · September 19, 2017 at 8:23 pm

Jesus fucking Christ, I don't remember all the coups in South Vietnam before Nguyen Van Thieu got in. Weird what registered and what didn't when I was a kid.

**Minimalist** · September 19, 2017 at 9:21 pm

(September 18, 2017 at 9:14 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Viet Nam poised no danger to the U.S. We decimated a subsistence farming nation because of right wing ideology! I knew this in 1970 when I was 11 years old. Any takers?

Dominoes. We didn't want to lose a game of dominoes.

**brewer** · September 20, 2017 at 12:12 pm

3 is some surreal shit. Dancing in the napalm flames. Morley is a commie. And all the time they knew it wouldn't work but kept playing the losing game.

**Whateverist** · September 20, 2017 at 12:35 pm

Now you all have me more curious to watch. I've been avoiding it. Having lived through it, my feeling is please - can we just move on?

**Minimalist** · September 20, 2017 at 12:59 pm

The country has never "moved on." Between the fracturing during the Civil Rights movements and the Vietnam Protest movement there has grown a consistent wedge between the "everything-is-just-fine-why-can't-you-leave-it-alone" and the "everything-sucks-you-scumbags" sides. The country has never been the same.

Gawdzilla Sama · September 20, 2017 at 1:08 pm

(September 20, 2017 at 12:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The country has never "moved on." Between the fracturing during the Civil Rights movements and the Vietnam Protest movement there has grown a consistent wedge between the "everything-is-just-fine-why-can't-you-leave-it-alone" and the "everything-sucks-you-scumbags" sides. The country has never been the same.

That's the extremes, certainly. The great unwashed really don't give a fuck, as ever.

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