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Okay.... Now defend Pol Pot.
He was part of the same furball. US bombed him as well.
Just because the US commits war atrocities against your country doesn't make you a nice regime.
john c mginley , was just as good, if not better than berenger and defoe. IMHO.
The problem with most 60's era WWII films were fairy tales, the Germans were meat puppets to be hacked and mangled in Sir Robin's mercy. Quentin Tarantino followed this formula with his revenge fantasy Inglorius Basterds. The best war films from that era are still Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape and in a lesser light The Battle of the Bulge - mainly due to the formidable presence of Robert Shaw.
Kelly's Heroes is just slightly less ridiculous that Where Eagles Dare, Clint was a stone killing maniac in that film...made you feel sorry for the Germans.
John C. McGinley always brings it. And there is no doubt that this role and how well he executed it, catapulted his career. I remember seeing an interview with him years ago talking about taking the Platoon role. He had to leave a successful role on Broadway and then the film was delayed so he was doing nothing for almost a year.
Pol Pot was a hardline commie. So you got a helluva argument to make here.
But fucking around aside, the US were dickheads in the first degree by escalating further and further in an attempt to win an unwinnable war and yes, this included asinine horseshit like bombing the fuck out of Hanoi. And a bunch of other stupid shit.
But the communist regimes in SE Asia weren't exactly poster kids for "nice". They were repressive regimes that were extremely brutal in their own right. Their selling point was that they gave land and participation in government to Viet peasants who - up to that time - had been disempowered, oppressed pawns of the landlord class.
There are no squeaky clean "nice guys" here.
The US promised to help the Vietnamese kick out the French colonialists. When they didn't, Ho Chi Minh sought help from the communists. The US fucked up everything over there. As they fuck up everything everywhere. Their invasion of Iraq spawned isis. I could go on and on. But I won't.
Bald got kicked out of Russia, so he went to Vietnam.
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I don't think the States promised Ho that they would help kick out the French. France was an ally and Viet Nam was French territory. The US had no clout there.
And when the French didn't leave, Ho got Russian and Chinese help, being a communist and beat the French militarily. The US jumped in and forced an agreement on Ho that split VN in 1/2 and removed the French and then supplied US diplomatic and military backing to Saigon. And the rest - as they say - is history. Hastings is a fairly decent recent history.
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