Robert Fulford asks Why aren’t the Vietnamese more grateful to Tom Hayden?:
Recently, he returned for the first time in 36 years to the country that he and his then-wife Jane Fonda tried to save from American domination in the Vietnam war. The trip disappointed him.
Ah yes, those ungrateful Vietnamese. After Hollywood cleared their path for a worker’s paradise they’ve decided they don’t like it much after all and are abandoning it. Oh well, Hollywood still has Cuba and there’s always Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to embrace.
“An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials.[1] 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s re-education camps, according to published academic studies in the United States and Europe.”
“In the years following the Vietnam War, over one million refugees fled the war-ravaged countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Those Vietnamese who took to the ocean in tiny overcrowded ships were dubbed the “boat people.”
Where are the major motion pictures recognizing the Vietnamese boat people?”
If I were Hayden, I’d hide before history catches up with him.
Well, just in time, Raul had decided that Cubans can finally learn of Hollywood’s solidarity with them and their glorious paradise!
165k died in education camps, they are fortunate to have not had Pinnochet, wait he was determined rsponsible for the disapperance of 4200 people..
When it comes to killing people, the left are more concerned about a few hundred killed by someone they abhor than the 10’s of thousands killed by someone they would like to have their picture taken with.
I enjoyed reading this over breakfast today in the NP.
Bang on the nail. I recall my socialist sister in teh UK talking about how the anti-(Iraq)War demosntration was just like the old anti-Vietnam war demos. My retort was exactly: So, how do you feel about the boat people and those killed and “re-educated”.
It was met in the same as Hayden did, with incomprehension of teh very question. They still believe, adolescent idealists at 60!
Bill Clinton apologized for not intervening in the Rwandan genocide.
Where are Hayden and Fonda?
Robert Fulford looks like a boring, stodgy, middle-aged old fart. He is, however, one of the best political columnists in Canada and is always worth reading.
I thought today’s column was excellent. In fact, there were a number of good columns in the NP today.
It took the Khmer Rouge to make the Vietnamese communist regime actually look good…
I spoke to a former member of the VC who now lives in Australia. He said that if he had it to do over again he’d have joined the US Marines. He made four attempts to escape after “the triumph of the revolution”. The first time he got caught and sent for “re-education”. That was the roughest go round with the usual starvation, beatings and harangues. The second time he got caught he thought he’d be killed but just spent a week in jail with a la carte beatings then let go. The third time he just had his money taken and sent back where he came from and the fourth time the guards pumped him for information on how to get out themselves, wished him luck and sent him on his way. For an interesting perspective read Truong Nhu Tang’s book “A Viet Cong Memoir”. The former justice minister for the Viet Cong, by the end of the book he’s drifting around in the South China Sea hoping to be picked up by an American aircraft carrier! But I’m sure leftist self-delusion dies hard, and for some, like Tom Hayden, it’s a life of adolescence, the modern Peter Pans.
Fame and fortune means never having to grow up, say you’re sorry or even notice the carnage your idiocy has caused.
This guy is sub-human garbage.
Will OLIVER STONE soon move to cuba?