Although I couldn't help but like Bob Costas' bald headed Russian guest with perfect English during the Sochi Olympics, it was amusing, and at times painful when he used various euphemisms to describe Russia's recent such past as "mysterious" and "difficult to understand." Sometimes when we hear such whitewashing we think that it's only "them" that create such historical fictions and try to ignore ugly truths. Not so.
I was listening the Nick Turse discuss his book, "Kill Anything that Moves," on the Vietnam war, and point out how the Pentagon is trying to whitewash our involvement in this unfortunate war by again misrepresenting the Gulf of Tonkin incident, My Lai, and many other US mistakes and blunders.
http://readme.readmedia.com/Nick-Turse-bestselling-author-of-the-Vietnam-War-history-Kill-Anything-That-Moves-to-speak-Feb-19-2014/7928621
It's a great lesson to learn how difficult it is to get any person, group, religion, State, Country to admit, confess, and own up to their blunders even long after they have already done so several times.
That's why its so beguiling to make dead people into saints and prophets, and to think that every thing was better in some distant whitewashed past.
Loren M. Lambert © February 24, 2014
I was listening the Nick Turse discuss his book, "Kill Anything that Moves," on the Vietnam war, and point out how the Pentagon is trying to whitewash our involvement in this unfortunate war by again misrepresenting the Gulf of Tonkin incident, My Lai, and many other US mistakes and blunders.
http://readme.readmedia.com/Nick-Turse-bestselling-author-of-the-Vietnam-War-history-Kill-Anything-That-Moves-to-speak-Feb-19-2014/7928621
It's a great lesson to learn how difficult it is to get any person, group, religion, State, Country to admit, confess, and own up to their blunders even long after they have already done so several times.
That's why its so beguiling to make dead people into saints and prophets, and to think that every thing was better in some distant whitewashed past.
Loren M. Lambert © February 24, 2014
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