Country Joe McDonald: 'Woodstock Changed Everything' - rollingstone.com
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I was 7 years old when Woodstock took place. And it was quite a few years before I heard Country Joe sing his great anti-war song, What Are We Fightin For? Almost 200 years before Woodstock, Thomas Paine said: "I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it come in my day so my children can live in peace." I wonder if the Vietnam War/Conflict would have turned out differently if Donald Trump had been the President back then?
Here is an excerpt from on of Ann Coulter's book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism:
- "Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."
- "Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."
- "In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."
- "President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kenedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."
- "Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"
- "A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war or would have won it pretty fast."
Recommended sermons and podcasts: "Napalm Girl" in Vietnam Forgave Those Who Bombed Her, by Adam McManus of Worldview in Five Minutes (2021)
Recommended anti-war song: Goodnight Saigon, by Billy Joel
Lecture by Dr. Peter Hammond: Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War
Here is a short excerpt from this lecture: "It took him (former President Hebert Hoover) over 20 years to produce this book, and in 1963, he's ready to publish it, and he dies in his hotel room in New York City. Very unexpectedly, and suspiciously, I would say. And then come the heavies from the CIA, and they cease all his books and everything, and intimidates his children and relatives not to publish it. In the interest of national security. 'This book will damage national security.' Well, actually, it would destroy the Democratic Party. It would have shown that the Democratic Party had been completely and utterly riddled by communists, from 1913 actually. Right back from the time of Woodrow Wilson. And the Democratic Party led America to the most disastrous wars of the twentieth century: First World War, Second World War, Korea, Vietnam - that's all Democratic activities. The Democratic Party would have been destroyed by the revelations in this book. And so they sealed this book for fifty years - a half a century...and the mass media ignored it!"
