ndi John Pilger, September 22, 2017, Punch .
Chimodzi mwa "zochitika" zapamwamba kwambiri za TV ya ku America, Nkhondo ya Vietnam, yayamba pa netiweki ya PBS. Oyang'anira ndi Ken Burns ndi Lynn Novick. Wotamandidwa chifukwa cha zolemba zake pa Civil War, Great Depression komanso mbiri ya jazz, Burns akunena za makanema ake aku Vietnam, "Adzalimbikitsa dziko lathu kuti liyambe kulankhula ndikuganiza za nkhondo yaku Vietnam m'njira yatsopano".
M'madera ambiri omwe alibe mbiri ya mbiri yakale komanso mowirikiza ku propaganda ya "zopambana", Burns '"yatsopano" Vietnam nkhondo akufotokozedwa monga "epic, ntchito yakale". Ntchito yake yotsatsa malonda imalimbikitsa mtsogoleri wake wamkulu, Bank of America, yomwe inayambitsidwa ku 1971 ndi ophunzira ku Santa Barbara, California, ngati chizindikiro cha nkhondo yodedwa ku Vietnam.
Burns akuti akuyamika "banja lonse la Bank of America" lomwe "lakhala likuthandiza ankhondo athu". Bank of America inali mgwirizano wothandizira kuwukira komwe kunapha mwina Vietnamese mamiliyoni anayi ndikuwononga ndikupha poizoni dziko lomwe linali lochuluka. Asitikali aku America opitilira 58,000 adaphedwa, ndipo pafupifupi anthu omwewo akuti akudzipha.
Ndayang'ana gawo loyamba ku New York. Zimakupatsani inu mosakaikira za zolinga zake kuyambira pachiyambi. Wonena kuti nkhondo "inayamba ndi chikhulupiriro ndi anthu abwino chifukwa cha kusamvetsetsana, kusamvetsetsa kwa America ndi kusemphana maganizo kwa Cold War".
Kusakhulupirika kwa mawu awa sikudabwitsa. Kukonzekera kwa "mbendera zabodza" zomwe zinayambitsa kuukiridwa kwa Vietnam ndi nkhani yolemba - Gulf of Tonkin "chochitika" mu 1964, chimene Burns chimalimbikitsa kukhala chowonadi, chinali chimodzi chokha. Bodza lamatsenga malemba ambiri a boma, makamaka Pentagon Papers, yemwe Daniel Ellsberg yemwe anali wolemba mabulosi wamkulu anatulutsidwa mu 1971.
Panalibe chikhulupiriro chabwino. Chikhulupiriro chinali chovunda ndi khansa. Kwa ine - monga momwe ziyenera kukhalira kwa Ambiri ambiri - zimakhala zovuta kuwonetsa makanema a "mapepala ofotooka" a filimuyi, osakafotokozedwa osadziwika, maofesi osadziwika bwino komanso zolemba za nkhondo za ku America.
Munkhani zomwe atolankhani aku Britain - BBC iwonetsa - sikunatchulidwepo zakufa ku Vietnamese, aku America okha. "Tonsefe tikufunafuna tanthauzo pamavuto owopsawa," a Novick akuti akutero. Zotsika kwambiri kwambiri kwambiri.
Zonsezi zidzadziwike kwa omwe awona momwe chikhalidwe cha American ndi chikhalidwe chawo chotchuka behemoth chasinthira ndikugwira ntchito yolakwira kwambiri pa theka lachiwiri la zaka makumi awiri ndi makumi awiri: kuchokera Mabala Obiriwira ndi Deer Hunter ku Rambo ndipo, potero, yakhazikitsa nkhondo zankhanza pambuyo pake. Kukonzanso sikumayima ndipo magazi samauma. Woukirayo amamvera chisoni ndikudziyesa wolakwa, pomwe "amafunafuna tanthauzo pamavuto oopsawa". Dziwani Bob Dylan: "O, mwakhala kuti, mwana wanga wamaso a buluu?"
Ndinaganizira za "khalidwe labwino" ndi "chikhulupiliro chabwino" pokumbukira zomwe ndinakumana nazo poyamba monga mtolankhani wachichepere ku Vietnam: kuyang'ana khungu ngati khungu linagwa pansi pa ana okhala ndi Napalmed monga zikopa zakale, ndi makwerero a mabomba omwe anasiya mitengo yomwe inkapsa ndi kuyesedwa ndi thupi laumunthu. General William Westmoreland, mtsogoleri wa America, adatcha anthu kuti "termites".
Kumayambiriro kwa 1970s, ndinapita ku chigawo cha Quang Ngai, komwe kumudzi wa My Lai, pakati pa 347 ndi amuna a 500, amayi ndi makanda anaphedwa ndi asilikali a ku America (Burns amakonda "kupha"). Panthawiyi, izi zinaperekedwa ngati kubwerera: "tsoka la America" (Newsweek ). M'chigawo chimodzi ichi, akuti anthu 50,000 adaphedwa munthawi ya "madera ozimitsa moto" aku America. Kupha anthu ambiri. Izi sizinali nkhani.
Kumpoto, m'chigawo cha Quang Tri, mabomba ambiri adagwetsedwa kuposa onse ku Germany pa nkhondo yachiwiri yapadziko lonse. Kuchokera ku 1975, malamulo osadziwika amachititsa anthu oposa 40,000 kufa makamaka "South Vietnam", dziko la America linati "amapulumutsa" ndipo, ndi France, anagwiriridwa ngati nkhanza.
"Tanthawuzo" la nkhondo ya Vietnam ndi losiyana ndi tanthauzo la chiwembu chakupha anthu a ku America, kupha anthu ku Philippines, kuphulika kwa mabomba a ku Japan, kuthamanga kwa mzinda uliwonse kumpoto kwa Korea. Cholingacho chinalongosoledwa ndi Colonel Edward Lansdale, munthu wotchuka wa CIA yemwe Graham Greene adakhazikitsidwa ndi chikhalidwe chake Wa Quiet American.
Ndikugwira mawu a Robert Taber Nkhondo ya Nkhuta, Lansdale adati, "Pali njira imodzi yokha yogonjetsera anthu opanduka omwe sangathe kudzipereka, ndipo izi ndizo kuthetsa. Pali njira imodzi yokha yolamulira gawo lomwe limapitiriza kukaniza, ndipo ndikoti likhale chipululu. "
Palibe chomwe chatsintha. Pamene Donald Trump adalankhula ndi bungwe la United Nations pa 19 September - bungwe lomwe linakhazikitsidwa kuti likhale lopulumutsa anthu "mliri wa nkhondo" - adanena kuti anali "wokonzeka, wokonzeka komanso wokhoza" kuwononga "North Korea ndi anthu ake a 25. Omvera ake anawomba, koma chinenero cha Trump sichinali chachilendo.
Wopikisana naye wa pulezidenti, Hillary Clinton, adadzikuza kuti adali wokonzeka "kuwononga kwathunthu" Iran, mtundu wa anthu oposa 80 miliyoni. Awa ndi American Way; zokhazokhazo zikusowa tsopano.
Kubwerera ku US, ndimakhumudwa ndi kusalankhula komanso kusakhala ndi otsutsa - m'misewu, mu nyuzipepala ndi zojambulajambula, ngati kuti kusagwirizana kamodzi kokha mu "zowonjezereka" kwagonjetsedwa ndi kusokoneza: chiwonetsero cha pansi.
Pali mau ambiri ndi ukali pa Trump wochititsa manyazi, "fascist", koma palibe pa Trump chizindikiro ndi chithunzithunzi cha dongosolo losatha la kugonjetsa ndi kusokoneza maganizo.
Kodi mizimu yowonetseratu zachiwawa kwambiri yomwe inatenga Washington mu 1970 ili kuti? Ali kuti ofanana ndi Freeze Movement yomwe inadzaza misewu ya Manhattan mu 1980s, ndikupempha Purezidenti Reagan kuchotsa nkhondo zankhondo zaku nyukiliya ku Ulaya?
Mphamvu ndi chikhalidwe cholimbika cha kayendetsedwe kazinthu zazikuru zidapambana; ndi 1987 Reagan adakambirana ndi Mikhail Gorbachev Mgwirizano wapakati pa Zida za Nuclear (INF) zomwe zinathetsa Cold War.
Masiku ano, malinga ndi zolemba zachinsinsi za Nato zomwe apeza nyuzipepala ya ku Germany, Suddeutsche Zetung, mgwirizano wofunikira umenewu udzatayika ngati "kukonza mapulani a nyukiliya kuwonjezeka". Mtumiki wa dziko la Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, adachenjeza za "kubwereza zolakwa zoopsa za Cold War ... Makhalidwe abwino onse okhudza zida zowononga zida ndi zida za ku Gorbachev ndi Reagan ali pangozi yaikulu. Ulaya ikuopsezedwanso kachiwiri pokhala usilikali wophunzitsa asilikali zida za nyukiliya. Tiyenera kukweza mawu athu motsutsana ndi izi. "
Koma osati ku America. Anthu zikwizikwi omwe adapita kwa "Senatori" ya Senator Bernie Sanders m'chaka cha chaka cha mtsogoleri wa pulezidenti amatsutsana pazoopsazi. Nkhanza zambiri za ku America padziko lonse lapansi zakhala zikuchitika osati ndi a Republican, kapena mutants ngati Trump, koma ndi a Democrats odzipereka, akhalabe taboo.
Boma la Obama linapereka ndondomeko yowonjezera maulendo asanu ndi awiri, limodzi ndi nkhondo zisanu ndi ziwiri zofanana, kuphatikizapo kuwonongedwa kwa Libya monga dziko lamakono. Kugonjetsedwa kwa Obama ku boma la Ukraine kunasankhidwa: kuthamangitsidwa kwa asilikali a Nato a ku America kumalire a kumadzulo kwa Russia kumene Nazi anaukira ku 1941.
Obama "akuyendetsa ku Asia" mu 2011 adalengeza kuti kusintha kwa asilikali ambiri a ku America ndi mphepo ku Asia ndi Pacific kulibe cholinga china osati kukakamiza China. Pulogalamu ya Nobel Peace Laureate yapadziko lonse lapansi yopereka chiwonongeko ndi ndondomeko yowonjezera yauchigawenga kuyambira 9 / 11.
Zomwe zimadziwika ku US monga "kumanzere" zakhala zogwirizana kwambiri ndi zovuta kwambiri za mphamvu zamagulu, makamaka Pentagon ndi CIA, kuti athetse mgwirizano wamtendere pakati pa Trump ndi Vladimir Putin ndi kubwezeretsa Russia ngati mdani, pa palibe umboni wotsutsana ndi chisankho cha chisankho cha 2016.
Chinyengo chenicheni ndikulingalira kwachinyengo kwamphamvu ndi zoyipa zakupanga nkhondo zomwe palibe waku America adavotera. Kukwera mwachangu kwa Pentagon ndi mabungwe oyang'anira pansi pa Obama akuimira kusintha kwamphamvu ku Washington. A Daniel Ellsberg moyenerera adawatcha kuti coup. Atsogoleri atatu oyendetsa Trump ndi mboni yake.
Zonsezi sizingathe kulowa mkati mwa "ubongo wa ufulu wodalirika mu formaldehyde wa ndale zadzidzidzi", monga Luciana Bohne adakumbukira mosakumbukira. Kuyanjanitsidwa ndi kugulitsidwa kwa msika, "kusiyana" ndi mtundu watsopano wa mtundu wa anthu, osati gulu la anthu omwe amatumikira mosasamala kanthu za mtundu wawo wa amuna ndi a khungu: osati udindo wa onse kuti asiye nkhondo yowononga kuthetsa nkhondo zonse.
"Kodi zinatheka bwanji kuti fucking ifike pa izi?" Akutero Michael Moore m'nyuzipepala yake ya Broadway, Malamulo Anga Odzipereka, vaudeville kwa anthu osatsutsika omwe akutsutsana ndi chikhalidwe cha Trump monga Big Brother.
Ndinayamikira filimu ya Moore, Roger & Ine, za kuwonongeka kwachuma ndi chikhalidwe cha kwawo kwa Flint, Michigan, ndi Sicko, kufufuza kwake ku chiphuphu cha zaumoyo ku America.
Usiku umene ndinawona masewero ake, omvera ake adakondwera kuti "ndife ambiri!" Ndipo akuitanira ku "Impeach Trump, wabodza komanso wosangalatsa!" Uthenga wake unkawoneka ngati unali mutagwira mphuno ndikuvota kwa Hillary Clinton, moyo ukanakhalanso wodabwitsa.
Iye akhoza kukhala wolondola. M'malo mozunza dziko lonse, monga Trump, Great Obliterator mwina anaukira Iran ndi zida zokopa ku Putin, amene anafanizira ndi Hitler: mwano wodetsedwa woperekedwa kwa 27 miliyoni a Russia amene anamwalira Hitler ku nkhondo.
"Mverani," atero Moore, "mukayika zomwe maboma athu amachita, anthu aku America amakondedwa ndi dziko lapansi!"
Kunali chete.
