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Yet there it was, and for one afternoon about 30 senior enlisted and officers had the overhead fluorescents turned on as we practiced handing the broomstick off and picked through trays of sandwiches ordered from the last open dining facility. This building, nestled in concrete barriers and surrounded by a tall perimeter of chain-link fence topped with concertina wire, was not torn down. It was a gift to the Afghan army capable of holding 1, people, but bereft of any useful infrastructure and incompatible with the Afghan electrical system.

The final days were a meticulously choreographed tactical withdrawal of endless sorties shuttling equipment and people to Kandahar kilometers away. Concurrent to the stream of large aircraft cycling between the two bases was the falling back of Marines from guard posts and disassembly of security systems.

The whole production was inane and self-indulgent. What were we leaving behind? A woefully ill-prepared ally that we were washing our hands of after 13 unproductive years. My deployment offered a glimpse of how the United States goes about the business of war. Not what we see mythologized in cinema—I never fired my weapon or rode in convoys, and I felt more tangibly threatened by the predatory men on base than by the Taliban women were warned to not walk alone at night.

The machinations of war mirror domestic American consumption, disregard for immigrants, environmental havoc, and corporate profiteering. It is mind-bendingly wasteful. The American military squanders with arrogant abandon taxpayer dollars, environmental resources, and the civilian lives of whatever country we have invaded—and then lies about all of it. The average American is divorced from the realities of military service, but a civilian transplanted onto a base like Leatherneck would recognize the trappings of our overconsumption that demands ongoing exploitation of service members, and foreign resources and people.

And what of the civilians of the nation invaded and terrorized for a generation by U. The background noise of taxpayer money pissed away and gross overconsumption of the United States military pales in comparison to the two-decade massacre of a country, which we then effectively abandoned.

In turn, we knowingly left the Afghan National Army piteously ill-equipped, exposing the folly of what were we doing there in the first place. The command headquarters was a plywood compound that branched off into multiple windowless wings. For his sins, her husband spent over ten years in a Vietnamese "reeducation camp" after the war ended, and died before he could emigrate with his family to the U. It could have been worse. How could have been worse? One possible answer emerged in with the release of another extract from the secret tapes recorded during the administration of Richard M.

Nixon, which have been dribbling out of his archives for years. In May , unable to defeat the Vietnamese peasants and hounded by protestors at home, an increasingly frustrated Nixon proposed to his national security advisor and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger dropping a nuclear bomb on the northern capital of North Vietnam, Hanoi. Thumping a map of the world in anger, Nixon is heard on the tapes saying, "I'll see that the United States does not lose.

I'm putting it quite bluntly South Vietnam may lose. But the United States cannot lose Whatever happens to South Vietnam, we are going to cream North Vietnam For once, we've got to use the maximum power of this country We can't use the word, "win. I don't care. The last battle of the Vietnam War was fought on May 15, , a bitter firefight on the small island of Koh Tang which ended, fittingly, with the extraction of 29 exhausted young marines.

In his memoirs, Kissinger blamed America's failure to prevail in the war the refusal by the U. Congress to provide open-ended support to the South Vietnamese, including the continued use of American firepower as the hammer to beat the communists out of the country.

Revival "We managed," said Mrs. Vietnam is like that. People disarm you with their matter-of-factness when you expect them to howl and rage at the tragedy literally etched into the country's DNA. Vietnamese researchers say that between , and 1 million Vietnamese still suffer health problems linked to the chemicals dropped during the war, including cancer and severe birth defects.

Last month, an American Federal District Judge rejected the latest in a series of lawsuits against the companies that created Agent Orange. The United Nations and the U.

State Department estimate that there are still over three million landmines in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Government claims that by the year nearly 40, people had been killed and over 60, injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance. Vietnam now has probably the world's highest proportion of amputees, according to the U.

So much war has shaped our character. We haven't been at peace long. Pell-mell economic growth of 9 percent a year from to fuelled by foreign investment and dominated by "red capitalists," has swept away the revolutionary images of the Ho Chi Minh era and replaced them with advertisements for Western and Asian multinationals. The top item on the ruling leftist elite's agenda: obedience. Wall's don't work Except for Everything is a mess, but at least we have a transgender admiral.

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