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Sixteenth Friday Senno11 Mar 08, 1991 intoxication when, drunk with the blood of the Iraqis, they wanted to drown their sorrows of Vietnam. This impression is further strengthened by the post-war remarks of President George Bush who Stated 1 : "By God we have kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all!" But the true state of affairs is not as they understand it. The fact is that they were being pursued by the demon of their horrifying atrocities in Vietnam and now they have created yet another such demon. So now it is no longer the case of just one demon but that of two. There are now two ghosts which will continue to haunt America. One is the ghost of Vietnam, the other is the ghost of their recently perpetrated atrocities on Iraq. They fail to see this because their analysis of this situation is completely different from that visualized by the rest of the world. The world does not see Vietnam as a place where 54,000 Americans were killed and their corpses were sent back home. The world views the story of Vietnam as the killing of two and a half million Vietnamese, and the reducing to dust of thousands of hitherto inhabited cities and villages. How things appear different when viewed from different angles! They thought that they had escaped the Vietnam humiliation because in comparison to the 54,000 Americans killed there, in this war their losses were negligible. But the truth of the matter is that history does not view things this way. History's ·view of Vietnam has always been and shall always be that in this modern age, the United States of America, donning the cloak of civilization, unjustly attacked an extremely weak and poor nation, and continued raining death and destruction upon it for eight and a half years. Such hideous bombardment was rained down upon them, that village after village and entire regions were made desolate. They cannot, therefore, ever erase the memory of Vietnam because the world will not permit them to forget it. And now to this, has been added the tyranny perpetrated upon Iraq. 1 Harrisburg Patriot News. U. S. A. March 21, 1991 306