https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/martin-luther-kings-most-controversial-speech-beyond-vietnam/#transcript
We are collapsing into not only a failed state but a reckless monster in search of monsters to destroy. During the Vietnam War there were four standalone strategic bombing campaigns, lasting from just a matter of days to several years. They progressively became more successful as doctrine was changed and lessons were learned, but it was a slow process. Initially honing in on civilian vulnerabilities, the focus eventually changed to the destruction of military targets, which finally forced Hanoi towards the negotiation table. Nevertheless, even the might of the world’s largest air force could not bomb the guerrilla soldiers of North Vietnam’s People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC) into submission. Several factors ensured that the US strategic bombing of Vietnam was not more successful, ranging from the very geography of the region to the immense backing North Vietnam received from the Soviet Union and China.
So what success did it have? U.S. manufacturers like Dow Chemical had R&D departments devoted to inventing increasingly appalling weapons, using human creativity for the purpose of causing suffering. I’m thinking here of napalm.
From 1963 to 1973, 388,000 tons of napalm were dropped on Vietnam, more than ten times what we used in Korea. I simply don’t understand what the purpose of causing a maximum amount of suffering to civilians was all about.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States and its allies dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia—double the amount dropped on Europe and Asia during World War II. Pound for pound, it remains the largest aerial bombardment in human history
To be blunt this is who the US government became in 1963.
By 2023 there was only a semblance of the ghost of government-the “Higgs Boson” of politics in the USA. The USA is over. No one can say what becomes of the assets of our Public Private Partnerships, or the Woke Military, or the CIA NSA or ABC agency funded by a Swiss Bank Account set up by Spymaster Dulles many years ago.
San Francisco is fully 2 nd world with tourist attractions only, no industry, Sacramento and Oakland and the entire state growing sicker daily. When the snowpack melts and dams burst and levees break, catastrophe kicks in, food crops unplanted, delivery of food difficult, then comes Fall and Winter and the catastrophe grows larger and in 2024 there shall be Havoc.
The country is built from the Vietnam War. And Covid run by DOD.
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In California: Morning, Evening, Late January
Pale, then enkindled,
light
advancing,
emblazoning
summits of palm and pine,
the dew
lingering,
scripture of
scintillas.
Soon the roar
of mowers
cropping the already short
grass of lawns,
men with long-nozzled
cylinders of pesticide
poking at weeds,
at moss in cracks of cement,
and louder roar
of helicopters off to spray
vineyards where braceros try
to hold their breath,
and in the distance, bulldozers, excavators,
babel of destructive construction.
Banded by deep
oakshadow, airy
shadow of eucalyptus,
miner’s lettuce,
tender, untasted,
and other grass, unmown,
luxuriant,
no green more brilliant.
Fragile paradise.
. . . .
At day’s end the whole sky,
vast, unstinting, flooded with transparent
mauve,
tint of wisteria,
cloudless
over the malls, the industrial parks,
the homes with the lights going on,
the homeless arranging their bundles.
. . . .
Who can utter
the poignance of all that is constantly
threatened, invaded, expended
and constantly
nevertheless
persists in beauty,
tranquil as this young moon
just risen and slowly
drinking light
from the vanished sun.
Who can utter
the praise of such generosity
or the shame?