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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (146007)	9/20/2004 4:56:27 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

cnyndwllr, I was against the war in Vietnam. I worked in a local campaign office for George McGovern, and protested Nixon on the grounds of the Washington Monument during his Second Inauguration. My reevaluation of our Vietnam policy came after the fall of Saigon; the mass executions; the re-education camps; the fall of Laos and Cambodia; the boat people; Pol Pot; etc. I did not become "for" the war in Vietnam, but I became a lot less sure that "against" was correct. So I am afraid your "lessons from the Vietnam War" are not so obvious or compelling as you seem to believe........

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (146007)	9/20/2004 10:23:48 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In the late seventies...I had the pleasure of working with Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian refugees.....those who had escaped "re-education" and the killing fields or were otherwise forced to flee after our abrupt departure, often at great risk to their lives......needless to say their perspective on the war...what could have been won and weighing of the costs has arguably left me with perhaps a different outlook on the matter.....