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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (766603)12/5/2007 11:35:39 AM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
stupid is not seeing the writing on the wall; or ignoring it and plunging into disaster, fighting a lost cause. How are we better off for having waged the longest and most costly war of American history up to that point?

MY politicians? THAT's dumb - ALL were guilty (except JFK who had decided not to fight that war):

The Nixon administration's slogan for continuing the Vietnam War indefinitely was "peace with honor", which is presumably what Commager was addressing in his references to false notions of "honor". The truth was, as pretty much everyone knew at some level, was that the US had to get out of Vietnam, and that the Communists were likely to win at some point afterward.

After he was re-elected, Nixon drastically escalated the war in the "Christmas bombing" of 1972. But the military loss in planes shot down was heavy and significant. And a public that mostly assumed that Nixon was getting the US out of the water was not eager to see it escalated once more. Support for Nixon's policies collapsed at home, and he soon signed the Paris Agreement of 1973.

His hope and that of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was that the agreement would give the US what Kissinger called a "decent interval" between the treaty and the official end of the direct US role in the war and the eventual collapse of the corrupt, unpopular South Vietnamese regime. But Nixon wasn't entirely committed to that concept, either. He made a commitment to the South Vietnamese government that he would send American bombers back into a combat role if the regime were seriously endangered. He kept the agreement secret from Congress, and Congress eventually banned further bombing by the US in Indochina.
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