Bill Moyers - Marilyn Young
Posted on May 13th, 2007 by ecthompson
Marilyn Young, author of Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, is the guest on the Bill Moyers Journal. Bill starts with going over Condi Rice’s interview with Charlie Rose. Marilyn points out the half truths and outright lies that full the interview. Condi Rice is extremely polished at delivering a message. It is unclear by looking at her face or her body language if the message is truth, truthiness or an outright lie. Dr. Rice did a bunch of lying to Charlie Rose and the American people but you had to pay attention. I’m going to try and pick up Marilyn Young’s book based on this this excellent interview.
Phenomenal interview Mr.. Moyers! Marilyn Young is a heavy weight and a hurricane of fresh air!
Thank you for all the time, intellect, exemplary reporting and interviews!
This interview was an epiphany for me. Marilyn Young is the FIRST person that I’ve seen on the public or commercial airwaves that has spoken about IRAQ and its parallels to VIET NAM.
I am a scientist, engineer and artist - not a historian - but my peers and I have known, in a way that I would characterize as “absolutely clear” that IRAQ and VIET NAM were and are EXACTLY the same. I have been shocked that people inside and outside of the current administration continue to point out how they “…are nothing like each other….”, when there are such clear and distinct similarities! Anyone who was old enough to remember what Johnson and Rusk and McNamara were saying after Tet in 1968, should be able, in my humble opinion, to see the identical stuff coming out of George and Condie and Rummy’s pie holes. It usually sounded like this: “…and furthermore, we WILL persevere in Viet Nam, and defeat the determined insurgency to preserve our American way of life…”. Now, who can tell me that isn’t the rhetoric that we’re being showered with right now!
- LTS/23-May-2007
Lee -
Thanks for your comments.
I totally agree. Marilyn Young did a great job at articulating the arrogance and deception that has accompanied both Iraq and Nam.