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American History

IcyPeas

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2. General Westmoreland said this in an interview. I think i saw it in the Ken Burns series on vietnam:

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 12, 2023, 09:39 AM

Nov 2023

In the 1974 film Hearts and Minds, Westmoreland opined that "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it: Life is not important."[37]

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Thanks for this post. multigraincracker Nov 2023 #1

General Westmoreland said this in an interview. I think i saw it in the Ken Burns series on vietnam: IcyPeas Nov 2023 #2