Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars

Oliver Stone and I share something in common in that we both served with the 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army, albeit during different eras. He drew from his firsthand experience in Vietnam with his directing of 'Platoon', highly recommended.  I also highly recommend 'JFK'.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident, along with the Reichstag Fire, are a few historical antecedents for 9/11. This is how Empires justify themselves, they have to invoke some form of an external existential threat to justify the inequality, the slavery, the absence of civil liberties at home.

Some things never change.

About the bombing of Japan, the intent was to test the technology and serve as a warning to Soviet Russia, which was expected, justifiably (the rest of Industrial Europe was reduced to rubble), to emerge from WW2 as a rival to U.S. hegemony. The Japanese were thoroughly defeated and were readying the surrender terms. All the talk about the necessity of the bombing to reduce U.S. casualties that might have been incurred during a land invasion is pure fabrication.

What also needs to be mentioned is the massive firebombing of Japanese civilians that preceded the dropping of the atomic bombs.

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