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John Ketwig adalembedwa m'gulu lankhondo la US ku 1966 ndikutumizidwa ku Vietnam kwa chaka chimodzi. Ndinakhala naye pansi sabata ino kuti tikambirane.

"Kuwerenga kwanga pankhaniyi," adatero, "mukakalankhula ndi anyamata omwe adapita ku Iraq ndi Afghanistan ndikuwona zomwe zidachitika ku Vietnam, mumakumana ndi zomwe ndimatcha njira yaku America yomenyera nkhondo. Mnyamata amalowa muutumiki ndi lingaliro loti muthandize anthu aku Vietnamese kapena Afghan kapena aku Iraq. Mumatsika mu ndege ndi basi, ndipo chinthu choyamba chimene mukuwona ndi mawaya a mawindo m'mawindo kuti mabomba asalowemo. Nthawi yomweyo mumathamangira ku MGR (lamulo la gook chabe). Anthu sawerengera. Iphani onse, agalu atulutse agalu awo.* Simulipo kuti muthandize osauka m'njira iliyonse. Simukutsimikiza kuti muli chiyani, koma si chifukwa chake. "

Ketwig adalankhula za asitikali ankhondo omwe abwerera kuchokera ku Iraq atathamangitsa ana ndi galimoto, kutsatira malamulo oti asayime chifukwa choopa ma IED (zida zophulika). “Posapita nthaŵi,” iye anatero, “mudzakhala ndi nthaŵi yopuma, ndipo mudzayamba kukayikira zimene mukuchita kumeneko.”

Ketwig sanayang'ane pakulankhula kapena kuchita ziwonetsero atabwera kuchokera ku Vietnam. Anakhala chete kwa pafupifupi zaka khumi. Kenako nthawi inafika, ndipo pakati pa zinthu zina, iye anafalitsa nkhani yamphamvu ya chokumana nacho chake Ndipo Kugwa Mvula Yamphamvu: Nkhani Yowona ya GI ya Nkhondo ku Vietnam. Iye analemba kuti: “Ndinaona zikwama zathupi, ndipo mabokosi ataunikidwa ngati nkhuni, ndinaona anyamata a ku America atapachikidwa opanda moyo pawaya wamingaminga, akukhuthukira m’mbali mwa galimoto zotayiramo, akukokera kuseri kwa APC ngati zitini kuseri kwa bumper yaukwati. Ndinaona magazi a munthu wopanda miyendo akudontha pa machira mpaka pansi pa chipatala ndi maso a mwana wopunduka m’maso.”

Asilikali anzake a Ketwig, omwe ankakhala m’matenti okhala ndi makoswe ozunguliridwa ndi matope ndi kuphulika kwa mabomba, pafupifupi padziko lonse lapansi anaona kuti palibe chifukwa chomveka chochitira zimene ankachita ndipo ankafuna kubwerera kwawo mwamsanga. "FTA" (f- the Army) anali atalemba pazida paliponse, ndipo kuphwanyidwa (asilikali opha akuluakulu) kunali kufalikira.

Opanga malamulo owongolera mpweya ku Washington, DC, adapeza kuti nkhondoyi inalibe yowawa kapena yonyansa, komabe m'njira yosangalatsa kwambiri. Malinga ndi olemba mbiri a Pentagon, pofika pa June 26, 1966, "strategy inatha," za Vietnam, "ndipo mkangano kuyambira pamenepo unakhazikika pa kuchuluka kwa mphamvu ndi kutha kwake." Chifukwa chiyani? Funso labwino kwambiri. Ichi chinali mkangano wamkati amene ankaganiza kuti nkhondo idzapita patsogolo ndipo ankafuna kuthetsa chifukwa chake. Kusankha chifukwa chouza anthu kunali chinthu china chosiyana ndi chimenecho. Mu Marichi, 1965, memo yolembedwa ndi Mlembi Wothandizira wa "Defense" a John McNaughton anali atatsimikiza kale kuti 70% ya zomwe US ​​idalimbikitsa nkhondoyi inali "kupewa kugonjetsedwa kochititsa manyazi kwa US."

Ndizovuta kunena zomwe zili zopanda nzeru, dziko la omwe akumenya nkhondo, kapena malingaliro a omwe akupanga ndikutalikitsa nkhondoyo. Purezidenti Bush Senior limati anatopa kwambiri atathetsa nkhondo ya ku Gulf moti anaganiza zosiya. Purezidenti Franklin Roosevelt adafotokozedwa ndi nduna yayikulu yaku Australia kuti amachitira nsanje Winston Churchill mpaka Pearl Harbor. Purezidenti Kennedy adauza Gore Vidal kuti popanda Nkhondo Yapachiweniweni yaku US, Purezidenti Lincoln akadakhala loya wina wa njanji. Wolemba mbiri ya George W. Bush, ndi ndemanga za Bush pagulu pa mkangano waukulu, zikuwonetseratu kuti ankafuna nkhondo, osati 9/11 isanafike, koma asanasankhidwe ku White House ndi Khoti Lalikulu. Teddy Roosevelt adafotokoza mwachidule mzimu wapulezidenti, mzimu wa omwe Veterans Day amawatumikiradi, pomwe adati, "Ndiyenera kulandira pafupifupi nkhondo iliyonse, chifukwa ndikuganiza kuti dziko lino likufunika."

Pambuyo pa Nkhondo yaku Korea, boma la US lidasintha Tsiku la Armistice, lomwe limadziwikabe kuti Tsiku la Chikumbutso m'maiko ena, kukhala Tsiku la Ankhondo Ankhondo, ndipo lidasintha kuyambira tsiku kulimbikitsa kutha kwa nkhondo kukhala tsiku lolemekeza kutenga nawo mbali pankhondo. "Poyambirira linali tsiku lokondwerera mtendere," akutero Ketwig. “Zimenezo kulibenso. Nkhondo yaku America ndi chifukwa chake ndili wokwiya komanso wowawa. ” Ketwig akuti mkwiyo wake ukukula, osati kuchepa.

M'buku lake, Ketwig adabwereza momwe kuyankhulana kwa ntchito kungayendere atatuluka m'gulu lankhondo: "Inde, bwana, titha kupambana nkhondoyi. Anthu a ku Vietnam sakulimbana ndi malingaliro kapena malingaliro andale; akumenyera chakudya, kuti apulumuke. Ngati tikweza mabomba onsewa ndi mpunga, mkate, mbewu, ndi zida zobzala, ndikupenta 'Kuchokera kwa anzanu ku United States' pa chilichonse, adzatembenukira kwa ife. A Viet Cong sangafanane ndi izi. "

Ngakhalenso ISIS.

Koma Purezidenti Barack Obama ali ndi zofunika zina. Iye watero kudzikuza kuti iye, kuchokera ku ofesi yake yoikidwa bwino, “ndiwabwinodi kupha anthu.” Watumizanso “alangizi” 50 ku Syria, ndendende monga Purezidenti Eisenhower adachitira ku Vietnam.

Mlembi Wothandizira wa boma a Anne Patterson adafunsidwa sabata ino ndi Congresswoman Karen Bass kuti: "Kodi ntchito ya mamembala 50 apadera omwe akutumizidwa ku Syria ndi chiyani? Ndipo kodi ntchitoyi ibweretsa mgwirizano waukulu ku US?"

Patterson anayankha kuti: “Yankho lenilenilo lili m’magulumagulu.”

*Zindikirani: Pamene ndinamva Ketwig akunena kuti "agalu" ndikuganiza kuti akutanthauza zimenezo, amandiuza kuti adanena ndikutanthauza "Mulungu" wachikhalidwe.