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To: i-node who wrote (177190)	10/28/2003 10:16:10 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575760

The war was NOT bipartisan. It was lost by poor leadership long before Nixon took office. Nixon never had a chance to win the war, his only option was to withdraw. The war was far too complex to dismiss it as you do in a couple of sentences. It was a blemish in American history and lousy judgment on the part of several administrations, not the least of which Johnson's. But you have to be more cogent in your arguments. American involvement in Vietnam began with Eishenower. To dismiss it simply as a Johnson failure is lazy. But I know that once we were there we should have taken their heads off. Johnson was a poor leader, and as a result, 58,300 Americans lost their lives. To try to blame Nixon for it after the fact is not intellectually honest. There's is lots of blame to go around. Taking their heads off, as you put it, could have been a Nixon prerogative as it was his predecessor's. More important considerations for were our support of corrupt regimes in SV in an all out blind fight to stop communism, the determination of the NVese national feelings, their ability to sustain losses vs ours, the support they got from both China and Russia, and the eventual opposition here at home. The one thing which is absolutely true and we have not yet learned in this country is that war MUST be a last resort. Iraq is a prime example of the failure to learn that lesson. If ever there was a war of choice, Iraq is it. And to fail to have learned that lesson from Vietnam dishonors the 58K Americans that died there. Al