Che Guevara - "Create two, three ... many Vietnams"

Just stumbled over this here and thought I should share :)

An interesting read, although the language is rather populist. The perspective is obviously quite different from the canoncial american view of the war.

http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/ww/guevara/1967-mtt.htm


Almost two years ago the United States started bombing systematically the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, in yet another attempt to overcome the belligerance of the South and impose, from a position of strength, a meeting at the conference table. At first, the bombardments were more or less isolated occurrences and were adorned with the mask of reprisals for alleged provocations from the North. Later on, as they increased in intensity and regularity, they became one gigantic attack carried out by the air force of the United States, day after day, for the purpose of destroying all vestiges of civilization in the Northern zone of the country. This is an episode of the infamously notorious "escalation".

The bombing started after the Gulf of Tonkin incident (which did not happen). The bombing was mostly in the South and was mostly military targets. Then the bombing went North to try and cut the Ho Chi Minh trail. Then the saturation bombing began. There was a halt for a while but then Nixon and McNamara wanted to bomb them back to the stone age. That's was Operation Linebacker II which was the complete destruction of Hanoi and Haiphong. There were other bombings during certain battles like at Khe Sanh.

I was in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 near Saigon and we could see the red glow on the horizon of the exploding bombs from the B-52s. The sound was like somebody constantly hitting a kettle drum.