Summer Reading, 2009
I recently found this in an old file… CHINA Annping Chin, The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics David Hinton, Selected Poems of Wang Wei D.C. Lau, trans. Mencius Andrew Plaks, trans.,…
Category: Vietnam
A Comment on a Passage by Thich Nhat Hanh
During the superpower confrontation in Vietnam, while thousands and thousands of peasants and children lost their lives, our land was unmercifully ravaged. –Thich Nhat Hanh, Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change The…
How Many Millions of People Have This Thought Today?
When can I speak the unuttered words that are choking me? –Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam Poems
She Must Have Touched a Nerve
Jane Fonda’s FBI file From the 60s & 70s Is 22,000 pages long. “The way we treated the Vietnamese belied everything I thought about my country.” –Jane Fonda, on awakening to the truth about the…
It’s as Simple as That
Won’t apologize for Hiroshima obliteration Won’t apologize for Indochina devastation American Exceptionalism means never having to say you’re sorry
Getting Something Started
I believe it’s a thousand year project; I don’t think this thing is going to be finished in my lifetime or in anybody’s lifetime. I think we possibly can get something started that will open…
The Way It Looked in 1963
Our fatherland is temporarily divided in two. The US imperialists are intensifying their aggressive war in South Viet Nam. Our southern compatriots are being trampled upon by the brutal US-Diem regime. Not a day passes…
How One Person Saw Hồ Chí Minh
In Hồ Chí Minh, everybody finds the noblest, most simple, and dearest member of his family… Compared with weapons, that does not yield to all the weapons of the Seventh Fleet… Hồ Chí Minh’s image…
Courage
Mrs. Mười was devoted to the Revolution Mostly away for nine years, her husband was assisting the Revolution All of her sons and daughters eventually contributed to the Revolution In vain the South Vietnamese military…
U.S. War Logic
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” —U.S. officer, speaking of Ben Tre, 1968 We had to burn their huts to protect them from the Communists. We had to napalm the people…