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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips The real lesson of Vietnam clipped by: masbury clippers remarks: Quote from historian Gareth Porter on what we should have learned Clip Source: www.democracynow.org Richard Nixon used the threat of a bloodbath in Vietnam as the primary argument for continuing that war for four more years after he came to power in 1969. Had Nixon listened to the antiwar movement and the American people by 1969 and ended that war, there would not have been the overthrow of Norodom Sihanouk in 1970. There would not have been the extension of the war into Cambodia. There would not have been the rise of the Khmer Rouge. When Sihanouk was overthrown, we tend to forget that the Khmer Rouge was really an insignificant movement. They were about 2,500 or 3,000 very poorly armed soldiers or guerillas. And it was really the extension of the Vietnam War into Cambodia which made the Khmer Rouge the powerful movement that they were. the lesson of Vietnam that we should be hearing, which we should have heard for the last three decades, but we haven?t, is that government officials in the White House simply do not pay attention to the real consequences of the wars that they wage. Tags: vietnam, war, terrorism, iraq, bush, peace, politics zum Artikel... Anzeige The Left Shudders clipped by: jatfla clippers remarks: This is how *some* Americans view our years in Vietnam and what followed. History is, indeed, repeating itself to our peril and those who trust us. Read the entire letter from the Prime Minister; its heartbreaking. Clip Source: weeklystandard.com The Left Shudders the left loves to wallow in Vietnam. But only in their "Vietnam." Not in the Vietnam war of 1963-68, the disastrous years where policy was shaped by the best and brightest of American liberalism. Not in the Vietnam of early 1975, when the Democratic Congress insisted on cutting off assistance to our allies in South Vietnam and Cambodia, in Phnom Penh former Cambodian prime minister Sirik Matak wrote to John Gunther Dean, I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you, and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection, and we can do nothing about it. The Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh a few days later. Sirik Matak was executed: Between 1 and 2 million Cambodians were murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the next three years Tags: conservatives, vietnam, politics zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de