An Important History Lesson

Here is a history lesson which every American should have learned, but unfortunately obviously has not because the same mistakes have been repeated and are being repeating today.

Many people blindly believe the news media's reports without analyzing what they are being fed.

General Vo Nguyen Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam Army. The following quote is from his memoirs (translated into English):

" ... What we don't understand is why Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. They had us on the ropes. If they had pressed us a little harder just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same during the battle of Tet. The Americans had defeated us! We knew it, and we thought they knew it.

We were so elated to notice that the US mainstream media was helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender (because) America had already won ... (but the US media evidently gave the wrong impression and news!) ..."
 

General Giap's memoirs confirmed what most Americans now know...but too late. The truth is: the Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam -- it was lost at home and the news media had a lot to do with it. The same slippery slope sponsored by the US media is currently in use in America. A biased media has the enormous power to fool people, and cut out the heart and the will of the (American) public.

A truism worthy of note …

Do not fear the enemy for it can only score a victory or two. Fear the media for they can destroy your honor and your will!