American Drones Ignite New Arms Race From Gaza To Iran To China

I saw Hearts and Minds again last night, a documentary film that recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as its own film and interviews.

A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeavors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected them and their reasons why they fought the United States and other western powers while showing the basic humanity of the people that US propaganda tried to dismiss.

Two quotes from the film stand out:

Gen. William Westmoreland: "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is cheap in the Orient."

Daniel Ellsberg: "We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side."

What keeps us developing these killing machines and foreign policies of aggression never changes.  
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