Oh great Marianne is a "We ourselves ended the war in Vietnam, through the power of peace and love" person. 馃檮 The Vietnamese ended the war. By winning.
Replying to @marwilliamson
3/ So the system says: a generation that took on the US war machine & ended a war in Southeast Asia was "mistaken," but students getting out of college straddled with debt, riddled with anxiety & desperately scrambling for the best consultant gig are a sign of societal progress.
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Replying to @JoshGhostyStan
You can invalidate the anti-war movement of the 1960's all you want and it won't change history.

Apr 17, 2022 路 3:03 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I'm not invalidating the anti-war movement. It opposed the war, it was integral for putting pressure on the politicians. But it didn't force the troops to leave.
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The fall of Saigon didn't happen because the soldiers and generals went "I guess the anti-war movement said we had to leave so let's leave"
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