Here's what you wrote:
Had we won, we would have saved the South Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians a lot of anguish, though. There would have been no boat people or massive re-education camps, Pol Pot would not have come into power, and instead of chaos, they would have gained years in economic development. My belief is was and always will be, there was no winning that war.
Then you stated:
I suppose we did sign an agreement. However, the Cambodian government was in no position to keep its territory from being used by the North, so I don't much care if it were violated. Sometimes, one does things out of exigency. In other words you don't really give a flying teacup about those people.
So again, did our presence in Vietnam help anyone? Answer, It didn't help anyone, and it undermined this country, and it reaped upon the people of Laos and Cambodia a horror that never would have happened had we simply not gone into Vietnam. And that's not irrelevant. That's what we were discussing.
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