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To: dfs405 who wrote (3108)	8/30/2004 9:40:35 AM
From: cthruu	Respond to of 7682

There were several reasons for losing Vietnam war. As Tommy Franks says, the enemy came across Cambodia at night, killed the Americans and went back. Our boys were not allowed to be offensive and go after them, or hit them in Cambodia. This was a sure setup for suicide missions for our boys. Second, the politicians micro-managed the war from Washington. Another sure recipe for a failure. I believe that when there were losses and body bags came home, the nation lost its will to win. A third reason for failure. Actions by people like Mr. Kerry further eroded people's faith and will to win. A fourth reason for failure. Unfortunately these failures had consequences. Pol Pot and his regime committed genocide and murdered 2.5 million innocent people. The national debate should focus on this unfortunate genocide. Just like the U.S. had an obligation to get rid of the Nazis, in retrospect we also had an obligation to get rid of Pol Pot and his killer regime. Unfortunately we failed. I was not in the U.S. at that time - I was growing up in India. I have been, however, in the U.S. during this time of terrorism. Ben Ladin declared a Fatwa against the U.S. in 1998. In an interview with ABC TV, he said that the only thing U.S. can do to avoid war is to "accept Islam and its laws and discard its infidel ways as a nation". He also said something like "in the cause of killing infidels, Islam does not make distinction between civilian and military people. All killings are acceptable." Throught the 90's Al Quaeda kept on hitting us and we ignored the warning signs - the first World Trade Center, Somalia, Khobar towers, the embassies in Africa, USS Cole, etc. - one after the other. As a nation ignored these signs, because we were too complacent because of the financial bubble. As a consequence of our inaction they were able to plan and hit the twin towers on 9/11. Again, actions and inactions have consequences that directly affect innocent people. If you look from the prespective of preventing suffering and genocide, AND freeing millions of people from tyranny, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are totally justified. As the only remaining superpower in the world, it was the obligation of the U.S. to free those people from tyranny in Afghanistan and Iraq, ESPECIALLY because we were attacked first and repeatedly by these nomads. Mr. Kerry says "we will not attack unless we are attacked first." That policy brought defeat in Vietnam and made the U.S. A PAPER TIGER in the eyes of billions of people. 6 million Jews died at the hands on Nazis, 2 1/2 million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot and 300,000 died under Saddam. Do we want to sit back and wait for another Nuclear holocaust at the hands of terrorists before we act again? Again, I say, How can the Americans be so blinded and misled?