Exactly. Why were “boat people” forced to board barely floating junks and risk the high sea in the hopes of finding a good hearted US ship to save them? Why would they leave by the millions? The media should have focused on that question, and the answer would have been as brutal as the “killing fields” of Cambodia, only they couldn’t blame the US on the brutalities that followed the end of South Viet Nam.
Whoa. sorry, bad internet connection resulting in multiple posts.
You can say that again.
“For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist ‘peace’ to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, and drowning.”