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06 February
U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote:
> >> http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/nytviet.htm
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> >> U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote:
> >> Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror
> >> by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967)
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To cite the fact that South Vietnam had an incredible election, and the fact that it is a hell hole today, completely ignores the reasons WHY it is that way today. It ignores the Soviet Union's backing of the North Vietnamese communists, a well armed but minority group who sought to force the entire population to live under their brutal system. It ignores the fact that the South Vietnamese fended off the invasions of the Soviet North for a full two years before finally being overrun, with NO help from the United States. It ignores the fact that the US Democratically led congressional abandonment of Indochina handed over the entire region, and its 120 million occupants, to Soviet communism, and millions were killed as a result. That liberals cite this as a reason to not be excited about the results of the election in Iraq is disgusting, since it is their actions that let Vietnam become the absolute hell hole it is today.
Michael
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Fareed Zakaria brought up the Vietnam vote not to discourage or take away the one good day we had in Iraq for their vote, but merely as a precaution that a general election is not the ends to forming a democracy. It requires institutions to protect individual rights, hopefully this will happen. He's not citing it so that we may not be excited about the Iraq electon, but to just be cautious and let us know there is a very long road ahead. If we can look back at past events we can hopefully know what to do next so as not to fail. What's annoying is that no one on the right apparently understands the word nuanced and and love to perpetuate false diochotomies.
Millions died during the Vietnam war. Why do you never mention that? By what right does our government have to tax it's citizens and send our military to fight for foreign nationals of a non-democracy in a region that posed no threat to American security? In Greece it's close proximity to Western Europe and NATO allies made sense to support their effort against the minority communist party trying to take over Greece. Allowing Greece to fall to communism would have been disastrous to our national security by giving the Soviet's a warm water port and strategic bases to launch attacks against NATO. Sorry but Indochina war made no sense other than the general theory that all communist aggresions in any country ought to be stopped by the U.S. So ask yourself, by what right does our government have to ask its citizens to give up their wealth and blood for the only benefit of helping a charitable cause?
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