Posted on 07/17/2009 6:35:27 PM PDT by mnehring
Apart from the Soviet Union, Asia was the major killing field of communism. Perhaps 75 million innocent men, women and children were killed for communism in Asia - mainly in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia.
The western effort to stop this evil in Korea and Vietnam was a great and noble cause, and partially successful. The brave Americans who died in Korea and Vietnam did not die for nothing. They did not die for "a lie". They died for the freedom of South Korea and South Vietnam. In Korea, they were partially successful. North Korea fell to the darkness, in which it still lives today. But South Korea was saved from communist democide.
Tragically, in Vietnam, the brave American effort was betrayed at home. South Vietnam could have been defended indefinitely, but the "anti-war" protesters won the day, and the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress abandoned South Vietnam and Cambodia to communist tyranny and democide after 1973. This abandonment - celebrated by the left to this day - is one of the great crimes of the west of the modern age. The anti-Vietnam War protesters should be ashamed of what they did.
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Great post on a night when the greatest propagandist for North Vietnam has died.
Friggin peaceniks never consider the consequence of their little love-ins and spitting on their soldiers.
We could have saved 60-80 million lives by dropping one A-bomb on Moscow in 1946.
Great resource. I’ve bookmarked it for further reading. Thanks!
Reducing Uncle Joe and Co. to their component atoms would have saved a lot of death and misery. When the rabble had taken to the streets here to protest, a good part of the home communist contingent could have been wiped out since we would know exactly who they were.
The saddest tragedy of the Vietnam war is that it was so unnecessary. The biggest “domino” at the end of the SE Asia chain, Indonesia, then 120 million people, strategically placed in the middle of the world’s busiest shipping lane and home to a vast wealth of mineral resources, had successfully crushed the Communists in six months in 1965. The British in Malaya had already defeated the Communists ten years earlier.
It was a noble effort to save the people of Indo-China from Communism but given that a sizable proportion of them weren’t bothered to save themselves I can’t help thinking the US could have saved billions of dollars and tens of thousands of live by just letting them get on with it themselves.
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