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The SEATO alliance pledged France, Britain, and America to come to the aid of South Vietnam if that nation was attacked by another nation. The moral obligation of France, the colonial power that held Southeast Asia, and Britain, which held Malaya, was greater than our obligation. We had, after all, granted independence to our only possession in Asia, the Philippines, before Pearl Harbor.
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The consequences of losing a winnable war were even worse. Cambodia experienced genocide equal to the worst crimes against humanity in modern history. The victorious North Vietnamese sent millions to their own concentration camps, and millions of “boat people” fled in desperation as well. Throughout the new communist region, people suffered appallingly.
Communism, as always, promises to help the people but always instead delivers grinding poverty.
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America had a treaty obligation and a moral duty to save South Vietnam and its neighbors from the horrors and poverty of communism. The only real argument that remains is whether we could have “won” this war or not.
Not only was the war winnable, but it was winnable without the sacrifice of blood we made in losing. Democrats, especially LBJ and his cronies, had all the tools to defeat North Vietnam as easily as George H. Bush defeated Iraq in Desert Storm.
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Without endangering a single American soldier, we could have dramatically weakened North Vietnam. We could, then, have actually landed troops in North Vietnam, with South Vietnamese forces fighting alongside us. This could have ended the war.
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There is, of course, a lesson for us today. The same sort of spoiled and selfish political class in Washington today surrenders the willing sacrifices of all those good Americans who have fought in this, our longest war, so that Obama or his flacks can gain a few polling points or bask for a moment in false glory. We are, today, losing another winnable war.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/when_we_lost_the_winnable_war_.html
April 19, 2015
When We Lost the Winnable War
By Bruce Walker
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