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Chargement... The Village of Ben Sucpar Jonathan Schell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Vietnam, januar 1967 Helt faktuelt skildres hvordan amerikanske tropper omringer landsbyen Ben Suc (Bến Súc) og "befrier" den fra Vietcong. Det gøres ved at flytte alle indbyggerne til en nyoprettet flygtningelejr på en bar mark og så ellers brænde landsbyen af, jævne den med jorden og bombe resterne. Undervejs får vi også lige hørt at sydvietnameserne bruger water boarding som torturmetode. Bogen er fra 1968 og amerikanernes holdning om at regeringshæren ikke er noget værd og at det er bedre at lave militæroperationer uden at blande vietnamesere ind i det skinner klart igennem. Det kan ikke undre at de ikke vandt den krig. Udmærket skildring, men der er sørgeligt lidt overraskende i den, når man har set hvad amerikanerne har gjort i nu over 40 år efter aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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With a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops. Ben Suc was a relatively prosperous farming village thirty miles from Saigon, on the edge of the Iron Triangle, the formidable Vietcong stronghold. It had been "pacified" many times, but because of security leaks no Vietcongs were ever captured, and it always reverted to them. Therefore on January 8, 1967, American forces launched a surprise assault kept secret even from their South Vietnamese allies. The plan was to envelop the village, to seal it off, to remove its inhabitants, to destroy its every physical trace, and to level the surrounding jungle. Jonathan Schell accompanied the operation from its beginning to its successful but dismal end, and reports it in depth as he saw it. This time no one slipped away. The story of the bewildering task of separating the V.C. from ordinary villagers is the dramatic core of this book. Here is an overwhelmingly affecting narrative of American skill and good intentions squandered in a cause made hopeless by misunderstanding, by resistant traditions, and by cultural gaps not only between ourselves and the villagers, but between them and the Saigon government. Mr. Schell's report is devastating. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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When they surrounded and attacked Ben Suc, their plan was to move the 3500 people, level the village and make the area useless to the Viet Cong. What they did, was kill a few probably innocent people, destroyed a village and thereby the lives and income of the people ensuring they would be sympathetic to the Viet Cong in the future.
Have we learned from this? Well we only have to look at Iraq and Afghanistan to see we made the same mistakes there. ( )