> How many more movies will be written, produced,
> directed, financed, and marketed for a white American
> audience glorifying white American boys traveling
> half way around the world to kill innocent Asian men,
> women, and children!
>
> I am extremely offended by this movie. I think it
> says a lot about 'white america' that they can
> produce and air a movie that glorifies the heroism
> and the 'oh-so-nobel' qualities of our American
> soldiers even as they were indiscriminately bombing
> villages and the innocent men, women, and children
> who lived in them.
>
> You and I know damn well that if foreigners were
> dropping bombs on our towns and cities and were
> captured while doing so that we wouldn't be welcoming
> them in our houses with open arms if we had managed
> to shoot one of them down! We would, most likely, as
> we did with the Taliban, kill as many of those
> bastards as we possibly could!
>
> I wish someone would make a movie about the vietnam
> war from the view point of the vietnamese!
As an Amerasian (1/2 Thai) and the son of a USAF officer/B-52 pilot with served with honor in Vietnam, I am offended that you imply that my father is a war criminal for his honorable service and that you claim to be the voice of all "offended" Asian Americans.
I seriously doubt some of my Vietnamese buddies back in the old OC (Orange County CA for you non-locals
) would agree that the VietCong and Ho Chi Minh were the most benevolent of folk. What offends me is your overwhelming desire to speak for all Asian Americans without doing your research on what was really going on there (and in some cases still is going on) and the atrocities that were committed in that region after the Americans left. You think communism was that great for SE Asia? Talk to my mother who grew up in Northern Thailand and ask her how the Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian refugees in the border refugee camps felt about their "tolerant" communist regimes. I guarantee you they ain't exactly giving the VietMinh, the Pathet Lao, and the Khmer Rogue a Roger Ebert "two thumbs up."
Guess what? Foreigners did attack our country. What did you think happened on September 11th, 2001? And we have one of the bastards in custody right now!
Speaking for myself as an Asian American, I for sure don't need your help or your phony advocacy. Tell you what. I will make a batch of my mother's secret recipe Gaeng Phet Pet (Roasted Duck in Red Curry for my friends who need an English to Thai translation) If you can eat the whole thing without a) breaking a sweat and b)screaming like a little baby because your taste buds will probably cease to exist due to the intense heat, then I will let you be the spokesperson for me because after all I can't seem to speak for myself because I am a helpless Asian. And yes, I'll even let you eat it with white rice.
Now that I am done with my rant, I am now craving Thai food. I hate it when I do that!
Matt Mirmak
