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Originally posted by fintstone
It figures.
I disagree. Going to war for a honorable cause is indeed noble. No the French have not been right on any issue that comes to mind. Yes, France is the home of surrender. No, we did not surrender in Vietnam. We soundly defeated the North Vietnamese and withdrew after the Paris Peace accords. The problem was that our (at the time) lily-livered congress chose not to live up to our obligation to help the South Vietnamese as we promised. This failure, purely for political gain, resulted in millions of deaths that we could have prevented. The war was not ignoble, but our failure to support our ally in '74 was indeed shameful and a dark day in the history of our nation. If we fall to similar democratic politics with our situation in Iraq...we will follow the same path. Millions will die and our military will be destroyed....again. The reason that we have reached the current situation is because we failed to act strongly enough in the past and are largely viewed as a paper tiger....due to the trepidation of some of our elected leaders and the partisan political aspirations of others.
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The US government surrendered in Vietnam, Korea, and will inevitably surrender in Iraq.
You may continue to lie to yourself all you wish.