10-11-2011, 06:06 PM
History Channel is showing a new program called "Viet Nam In HD" that is basically showing the history of the Viet Nam War with a new spin. The program takes the angle of showing Viet Nam from the view of the soldiers who fought it. A particularly insidious psychological warfare method of having an actor speak with a young voice as if he was young again and speaking from Viet Nam and then flashing to his present old voice is used to back-date Viet Nam accounts in the fresh voices of the Iraq era and its politics. What CIA is doing here is retro-fitting Viet Nam to the present day CIA seizure of how US wars are viewed. They are revising the Viet Nam War to put it in a present day perspective and backdate it to present day politics. It's a very subtle effect that is helped along with patronizing accounts of how the advent of color television helped a hysterical public see blood in color for the first time on TV. Soldiers tell of fighting for America and then being spit on when they returned. Seeing how they have seized control of how wars are viewed through CIA government authoritarianism they are now showing the Viet Nam War as the possession of those soldiers who fought it. They are slowly working the American public and its input out of the formula. The American public is now simply seen as the ignorable body that overreacted to those brave soldiers who were fighting the war.
Trust me, the intent of this show is to speak to young American minds with the voices of present day Iraq and teach them Viet Nam was OK.
Trust me, the intent of this show is to speak to young American minds with the voices of present day Iraq and teach them Viet Nam was OK.