Ah, the ironies of history. Because of “deep throat’s” actions, causing the subsequent events that forced Nixon to ultimately resign, the South Vietnamese and Cambodians were left to the tender mercies of French trained Marxists, the heroes of the American New Left. Like deep throat, even the New Left thought of themselves as heroic! In reality the New Left were “chicken hawks” who never joined up with their role models the Vietcong; as close as Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden ever got was doing agitprop in Hanoi while enjoying room service. And all those heroes who stayed home to enjoy the free love scene while having the cultural revolution thought of themselves as heroic, and some even got amnesties for dodging the draft. Sometimes it pays to be the children of the bourgeoise. It’s even better when those progressive children get to write there own self serving history, but, to paraphrase Marx, for Baby Boomers the ruling ideas of history are invariably the ideas of the ruling class children who don’t do “wars of choice.”
