To find truth, you peer more deeply beyond some "liberal vs limbozo" popular moronic argumentation. The stories of just one war are enough to take years of study to fully comprehend, appreciate without the blame game, just look at the millions of experiences of families & individual human suffering; the good, the bad & the beautiful.
We find the exodus of the Vietnamese boat people the entire biblical story revisited, how many times has this happened in history? Several hundred 1000 times in all, in human experience? Over & over again? And the will to help & lend hand, comes naturally, from past shared human experience, universal, an empathy out rememberance.
Vietnamese boat people (perhaps 200,000- 400,000 died at sea, just imagine that )
en.wikipedia.org
On June 10, 1977, an Israeli cargo ship en route to Japan crossed paths with a boat full of 66 Vietnamese.
They were out of food and water, were extremely lost and scared, and their boat was leaking. The Israeli captain and crew immediately offered food and water and decided to bring the passengers on board and transported them to Israel. There, Prime Minister Menachem Begin authorized their Israeli citizenship, comparing their situation to the plight of Jewish refugees seeking a haven during the Holocaust. Following this rescue, between 1977 and 1979, Israel welcomed over three hundred Vietnamese refugees.
As Begin explained to then-U.S. President Carter:
"We never have forgotten the boat with 900 Jews the St. Louis, having left Germany in the last weeks before the Second World War... traveling from harbor to harbor, from country to country, crying out for refuge. They were refused... Therefore it was natural… to give those people a haven in the land of Israel."
The government of Israel offered a ceremonious welcome, with Minister of Absorption David Levy uttering some words of rebuke to the rest of the world: "Let them do as we have. May they lend a hand to save women and children who are in the heart of the sea without a homeland, and lead them to safe shores
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