The "lesson" of Vietnam

 

Jeffrey St. Clair:

+ The airwaves are flush with commentary on how the “collapse” of Afghanistan proves the US didn’t learn the “lesson” of Vietnam. Of course, if US foreign policy was about learning from past mistakes, there’s no evidence it learned the lessons from Korea, Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Laos, Cambodia, Chile, Lebanon, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Grenada, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Syria…It’s not about “learning.” It’s about understanding who profits from these seemingly failed interventions/invasions/occupations.