James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today." George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."

it's easy to forget now just how demonized the Vietcong were by the Western media and political class. "Terrorist baby killing mass rapists" was the typical line. Here's just a small sampling of New York Times headlines when searching for "Vietcong terror":

this is important to remember: The military's official policy was to make "atrocity" propaganda as part of its psy op campaigns against the Vietcong. This included graphic gore of dead babies and decapitated bodies, which they noted should be used sparingly for maximum effect

anyone who dared defend the Vietcong during this time was smeared as an evil terrorist loving baby killing and rape supporting monster. Here's William Buckley casually framing the Vietnamese resistance as Nazis and repeating deranged atrocity propaganda of them burning babies

note how Chomsky does not let himself be browbeaten by that scumbag propagandist, and does not back away from his statement on the Vietnamese resistance being heroic. Instead he refocuses on and reiterates the truth that the genocidal US empire is responsible for the violence

of course this atrocity propaganda was pure projection of the genocidal imperialist mind. The US actually disemboweled, beheaded, raped, mass murdered babies and children. Just read the harrowing Winter Soldier testimonies. And it is not just past tense: https://t.co/V54eyzdnQk

btw here's Chomsky's thoughts on his appearance on William Buckley's show. Buckley was infuriated by him but said he would invited him on again. Of course he never did, because like all depraved right-wing hacks he prefers to berate people who can't respond

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