Walter Cronkite CBS News (Feb. 27, 1968)

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by howela

When we bailed, the South Vietnamese that were sympathetic to the U.S. were treated very inhumanely by the Viet Cong. Many were tortured and executed.
The saying goes, "If we fail to remember history we are doomed to repeat it."
This is food for thought about Iraq whether you think we should be there or not. The Iraqi people will suffer greatly If we leave now.
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Remember this famous photo? All those people on that latter "were" South Vietnamese trying to get on the last flight out of VietNam. What would drive people to leave their homeland with nothing but the clothes on their backs?
They knew what fate awaited them if they remained in VietNam.

This is what the bleeding hearts would have us do in Iraq Do Americans lack the back bone to stay the coarse ? NO ! We do have liberal politicians that lack back bone and want to cut bait and run or maybe we can buy friends in this world

[Huldah]

Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

This is what the bleeding hearts would have us do in Iraq Do Americans lack the back bone to stay the coarse ? NO ! We do have liberal politicians that lack back bone and want to cut bait and run or maybe we can buy friends in this world

Buying friends is always a very bad idea. And paying off your enemies to leave you alone or to not attach you is even a worse idea. Throughout history you can never find one example where soemone who baught his friends had any left when the money ran out. Neither can you find one example of a kingdom/country that payed their enemy to not bother them that the enemy, after emptying the coffers took the country anyway. So many "enlightened" folk think it is so "civilized" to pander to the enemy. The "Be friends with them and they will be friends with us" attitude will only cause us to be off our guard and unprepared when they attack.

This is just human nature. Unfortunately, no matter how "educated" we THINK we are, no matter how "modern" or "civilized" we THINK we are, the rest of the world still wants to either take this land or destroy it.

Lest we never forget.