re: #157 Dark_Falcon

Again, remember the times. Anti-Anti-Communism had robbed the Communist Totalitarian angle of most of its punch. Buckley went with the angle that had punch, even if it wasn’t entirely right.

That having been said, the actions of the Viet Cong in Hue were every bit as bad as the deeds of the SS Einsatzgruppen. They murdered entire families, shooting them into mass graves. The only diffence is that they murdered “class enemies” instead of Jews. So the Nazi comparison is not without merit.

Yes, and the ARVN handed out candy and smelt of roses… we were in the middle of a civil war for no good reason. Complaining about how bad one side was absent context is the worst form of historical revisionism.