Posted by aogWednesday, 17 May 2006 at 15:59 TrackBack Ping URL

I read things like this, that celebrate or at least view positively, the triumph of the North Vietnamese Communist regime over South Vietnam. The concensus is that it would be a good thing for the same sort of thing to happen in Iraq. I am left wondering, why do these people hate the Vietnamese and Iraqis so much, that they would wish such misery visited on them? The war in Vietnam ended with mass executions, slave labor, repression, and the exodus of hundreds of thousands (in the neighborhood of how many Arabs fled Israel during the 1948 war). Even if one complains about the poor handling of the war by the neocons, at least they wanted Iraq to improve. These people just want Iraqis to suffer to justify their hatred.