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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (52942)10/18/2002 3:29:31 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The French "bailed out of Vietnam"? After 20 years of relentless fighting, that's hardly bailing. That seems smart after 20 years of dumb to finally have an epiphany of "Oh, there's not winning here". We should never have given Vietnam to the French. When you compare WWII to Vietnam, you are off by miles. France, the country, was invaded. They had to fight back.

"It is obvious that our failure to make a full commitment" Drafting every eligible male in this country was not a full commitment? AFter ten years there, a mere half of what France had spent, we too finally realized that saving Vietnam from Communism was not within our power. There was no home front defeatism. Despite what most people in this country felt, that the Vietnam war was a mistake, Nixon spent another six fruitless years there. We were defeated over there in Vietnam. And what if we had won? What is it that we would have won? What exactly after ten years of sacrificing young Americans would we have come away with had we "won"?
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