Word: indochina
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...doesn't mention the Marines' most significant activity over the last decade or so, killing Vietnamese. And it doesn't mention the real challenge the Marines had to face, the seemingly unlimited capacity for resistance of the Vietnamese people and the other peoples of revolutionary Indochina. By its wording, by its statement that only three out of 100 of us are men enough to be Marines, the ad fosters the exaltation of a virility equated with violence that helped make possible the Indochina war, as well as such comparatively minor evils as the discrimination to which women and homosexuals...
...ones J. Walter Thompson more generally sells its talents to. There's a logic to the slickness. Like the other armed forces, the Marines have been used in recent years primarily for protecting large American capitalists from the threat of democratic government in the rest of the world, from Indochina to the Dominican Republic, where Marines overthrew a freely elected government...
That system--any system which can't defend itself without repressive violence on the scale used by the Marines and other armed services in Indochina--ought to be abolished. The organizations that applied the violence--the present U.S. government and its military agents as presently constituted--ought to be the first to go. No one should help them implement their aims, and no one should respond to the advertisement on page...
Finally, all those who have opposed the criminally insane wars of U.S. aggression in Korea, Indochina and elsewhere should be completely exonerated. They are the real heroes and the true patriots, not those who helped return Korea and Indochina to General LeMay's stone age. The latter must include, but not be limited to, those shot down over Indochina while murdering, maiming and wounding Indochinese who have never harmed or threatened to harm the American people in any way. And could not do so even if they wished, which they...
Hugh B. Hester retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Brigadier General. He is a critic of the on-campus ROTC program as well as an opponent of American Indochina policy...