Good grief...
It's interesting, the high esteem some of these lefties hold themselves in, when they cannot even get the simple things right. Our Jane is happy to push this article forth, one that has John McCain hiding in the "break room" of the "USS Forestall," when he was out there on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal. Is it being a grumpy old man, or just some sort of amateur historian, to find such childish errors rather grating, especially given the prating tone of the whole article?
McCain was "spoiled"? Well, find out how he got that way and spoil a few more children in the same way; he seemed to hold up pretty well under mistreatment as a POW!
I found that McCain wrote a rather gracious obit for the late General Giap, when he might as well have expanded a bit on such aspects of Giap's career as the planning for the disastrous Tet Offensive, the North Vietnamese counting on that popular uprising that never happened. A fire on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier comes off as a weenie roast gone wrong compared to the Tet Offensive, if anyone cares to keep score in that way.
I love that closing quote from Giap, the one about facing inevitable failure for the imposition of one's will on "other nations." Nothing at all in that to do with the Communists of North Viet Nam going to war with whatever the government of South Viet Nam was, then? Noo, of course not; that was simply "reunification," and woe betide those not of the Communist persuasion who have missed that simple fact!
Jane, old bean, if you really, really understood "irony" in the way that you obviously think that you do, then you might not have posted that article. As it is, I see you fitted with the usual leftist blinkers, there. You are no ironist at all, someone posing as ignorant; you are just another lefty who's genuinely ignorant, albeit one with a rather spectacular ability to annoy.
If the quality of Jane's prose and thought matches his self-assessment of it, then he must have been in the running for that Nobel Prize for literature, just narrowly beaten by Alice Munro. Well, better luck next time!
Last edited by chuks; 14th Oct 2013 at 13:29.