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To: Neocon who wrote (146010)	9/20/2004 6:50:54 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Neocon, re: My reevaluation of our Vietnam policy came after the fall of Saigon; the mass executions; the re-education camps; the fall of Laos and Cambodia; the boat people; Pol Pot; etc. I did not become "for" the war in Vietnam, but I became a lot less sure that "against" was correct. So I am afraid your "lessons from the Vietnam War" are not so obvious or compelling as you seem to believe........ Yes, there was a terrible price to pay but were the alternatives worse? Two questions will never be answered, first, what course history would have taken if we had not destabilized the region and second, what course would history have taken if we'd stayed and kept killing millions of Vietnamese? One thing that we DO KNOW for sure, we were powerless to impose our will on Vietnam. Another thing WE KNOW for sure, the names on the Vietnam wall stopped adding up when we butted out. That's good enough for me but for those who thought the deaths were worth whatever we were getting out of it, we could form a foreign legion for enlistees who thought it was worth THEIR LIVES. I'd wish them all well, and after a while I suspect that we'd see a lot less of such activism. Just let them figure it out-Ed.

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