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To: Brumar89 who wrote (106369)	7/19/2003 2:02:21 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Vietnam was indeed a civil war, but we did not intervene to stop the fighting. We entrenched our military as partisan combatants and propped up the government of South Vietnam as part of our broader geopolitical "war on Communism". Now President Bush visits China and drinks tea with leaders of the Communist Party. Vietnam resolved their own civil war and determined their own political destiny after defeating the United States in war. We could have intervened to end the civil war in Vietnam instead of going to war against the North -- this would have saved millions of lives and we could have learned something about how to be a world leader for the modern era. But the hawks could never have swallowed the idea that Vietnamese should determine their own destiny. The same is now happening in Iraq.