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Why America’s Pullout From Vietnam Worked (Barf Alert)
Newsweek/MSNBC ^
| Aug 23, 2007
| Michael Hirsh
Posted on 08/24/2007 1:24:55 AM PDT by DakotaRed
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Words completely fail me on this.
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posted on
08/24/2007 1:24:59 AM PDT
by
DakotaRed
To: DakotaRed
So, These lefty loons are trying to say that causing the slaughter of millions of Vietnamese when they forced America to pull out of the south resulted in the end of the cold war?
They are more delusional than I thought!
To: DakotaRed
It worked great for the million or so that died as a result...
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posted on
08/24/2007 1:36:26 AM PDT
by
DB
To: DB
It worked great for the million or so that died as a result... Less people, less global warming.
To: DakotaRed
The writer should ask the Vietnamese who did not support Hanoi what they think of this...
Oh, that's right, for the most part, they can't.
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posted on
08/24/2007 1:43:45 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: DakotaRed
This man lives on the other side of the mirror, where right is wrong, up is down, and stupid is genius. And, based on the mirror image thinking this gentleman engages in, he is a genius... in his world. To him, the Cold War just sorta ended cuz the USSR just sorta fizzled out, like all de lib rals knew all a long, don’t cha know? Ron Ald Rey Gun” Who dat?
To this guy, we need not have ever worried about the rise of Al Quaida and global terrorism, because at some point in the future, everyone will realize that Globalism is the way to go, and Nihilism is just a flash in the pan. The millions that died opposing the bloody tyranny of Marxist-Leninist governments need not have gotten so emotional about everything, as everything works out in the end, just use diplomacy!
I will be interested to read further comments on this article, as it will distill thinking about the such leftist blindness to the realities of the Islamist War on the West, and why such idiocy can very well get us all killed.
To: DakotaRed
Sounds like a slightly more articulate john Kerry. “Sure hundreds of thousands may have died horrible deaths, but it is okay, because they prefer Americans to Russians now.”
Also, this guy should talk to some of the Christians in Vietnam and see how they are treated by the “nominally Communist” government of Vietnam.
And being nominally Communist is like being a little pregnant.
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posted on
08/24/2007 2:16:54 AM PDT
by
NavVet
(O)
To: DakotaRed
This is the MSM's answer to President Bush's speech to the VFW yesterday. President Bush indirectly made a hugely effective point that pulling out of Iraq would result ina same debacle in the ME, with graver consequences.
Now the MSM is touting their revisionist "loser" history , to pretend that the whole SE Asia debacle did not happen. They minimize the effect of what happened in SE Asia, and myopically ignore what would happen in the ME if America withdrew.
What a bunch of traitorous losers.
I hope President Bush continues to lay it to the MSM and the Dems. In doing so , he indirectly attacks their patriotism, AND that is a very, very, good thing indeed.
The battle for Nov 2008 now has begun. The opening salvos have been fired. May the Republican cause be won in order to secure the future of America, and the tradition of the USA as a beacon of freedom.
President Bush's speech is a corker. If you want to read it, go here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040816-12.html
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posted on
08/24/2007 2:27:00 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
To: DakotaRed
In contrast to the Soviet and Chinese communists, or for that matter the fascists of the 1930s and '40s, Al Qaeda and its ilk have no universalist program, no persuasive alternative ideology to globalization and some brand of democracy. Yes they do
They want a Global Islamic State.
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:00:17 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
To: Pontiac
Al Qaeda and its ilk have no universalist program, no persuasive alternative ideology to globalization and some brand of democracy. You can't get this stupid without drinking... a lot...
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:14:43 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(You’ll never grow old with Hillary-Care!)
To: DakotaRed
ask the vietnamese that supported the US how well the pullout worked once the US left!!!
To: DakotaRed
I've met survivors of the "reeducation camps" who are thriving in modern Vietnam. -John Forbes Kerry
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:16:58 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
To: DakotaRed
Yes, a lot of Vietnamese boat people died on the high seas; but many others have returned to visit in the ensuing years. This is Michael Hirsh's one nod to the Millions and Millions dead in the bloody aftermath of American withdrawl. The fact that a few tourists returned and somebody took down a plaque in 1991 balances completely the mountains of human skulls.
This article should be filed away as a pure distillation of American intellectual arrogance, circa 2007.
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:28:36 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(You’ll never grow old with Hillary-Care!)
To: DakotaRed
Like the South Vietnamese government, the Iraqi politicians hunkered down in the Green Zone have little legitimacy any longer
I don't know where to start either.
It's amazing how much misinformation Hirsh crams into a single sentence.
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:41:40 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: DakotaRed
This is why democRats and lieberals can never be trusted with our security.
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:45:40 AM PDT
by
anoldafvet
(To liberals, building a wall across the Mexican border is a violation of the Voting Rights Act.)
To: DakotaRed
So, thirty some years on they are finally trying what it was we wanted them to do in the first place? Seems to me that proves we were right all along.
To: DakotaRed
Tell me again how many Christians were martyred in Vietnam?
But it's all good. They were probably pro-life anyway.
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posted on
08/24/2007 3:53:35 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: DakotaRed
The US pullout "worked well" for these people. /sarc
To: DakotaRed
So the end of the Cold War was partly due to the pull out in Vietnam? Then........
I'm the Easter Bunny.
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posted on
08/24/2007 4:01:24 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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