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To: judywillow
Dear Judy,
We have yet to read of any refugees streaming northward in VietNam. We have, however, read of many people executed by the communists after their takeover, and the imprisonment and other punuishment of many more.

There is also the troubling question of the massacres in Cambodia, in which the numbers of dead and disappeared were only equalled by Hitler and Stalin.

Yes, we made many an error in VietNam. Chief among them was our refusal to fight to a finish and win, based on what turned out to be a faulty assumption that this would lead to intervention by China and Russia. The quarter-century between Korea and VietNam did not, in that regard teach us much.

But it did teach our enemies ... actual and potential ... that we no longer had the guts for military solutions to military problems. It also taught our enemies that our policies could be manipulated by an alliance between them and our media.

324 posted on 11/06/2006 8:18:01 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Vote for your life, and the life and prosperity of this country.)
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326 posted on 11/06/2006 8:14:46 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
But it did teach our enemies ... actual and potential ... that we no longer had the guts for military solutions to military problems. It also taught our enemies that our policies could be manipulated by an alliance between them and our media.

It's hardly a coincidence that the modern age of terrorism began with the US withdrawal from Vietnam. Once it was learned that you didn't need to be able to defeat a major power on the battlefield - just in the media - the hijackings and truck bombings began.

814 posted on 07/28/2007 3:59:16 PM PDT by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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