Posted on 01/29/2020 5:15:45 PM PST by lowbridge
Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner and advocate of large-scale immigration, once tried to block the evacuation of tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees who had helped the United States during the Vietnam War.
As a senator, the future vice president, now 76, was adamant that the U.S. had "no obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals," dismissing concerns for their safety as the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong swept south toward Saigon in 1975.
His position was in stark contrast to the one he took nearly 30 years later over Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who had worked with U.S. forces. "We owe these people," his then top foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken said in 2012. "We have a debt to these people. They put their lives on the line for the United States."
Biden said in 2015 that keeping Syrian refugees out of the U.S. would be a win for ISIS and tweeted in 2017 that "we must protect, support, and welcome refugees" to maintain the promise of America.
As South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in the spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford and the U.S. government undertook to evacuate thousands of South Vietnamese families who had assisted the U.S. throughout the war. The leading voice in the Senate opposing this rescue effort was then-Sen. Joe Biden.
Hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese allies were in danger of recriminations from the Communists, but Biden insisted that “the United States has no obligation to evacuate one — or 100,001 — South Vietnamese.”
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Biden is a scumbag.
The Dems didn’t think they would vote Democrat...
Good point. The Dems liked the commies anyway - why harbor their enemies?
I remember the cat population went down in our part of town.
Just scum of the scum.
Politicians like this are sub-human scum.
Slightly off topic:
The sentiment against Vietnamese was still very strong in the US back around 1982. That was the year the Vietnam Memorial Wall went up in Washington DC. There was outrage by many vets because the designer of the wall was Maya Lin.
Maya Lin was a 21 years old inexperienced architect and of Asian ancestry. Chinese, not Vietnamese, but the idea of awarding this contract to someone who ostensibly appeared to be Vietnamese was very upsetting for a lot of Americans. Eventually, the unusual design was fully accepted and embraced by the country. I vividly recall the controversy.
Vietnamese are stridently anti-communist/socialist and are hardcore conservatives; at least the many that I have known.
The Vietnam refugees were likely to oppose socialism.
The current crop to support it, as many are only seeking freebies.
Biden has proven to be right from his own ideological perspective. Middle Easterners tend to vote for Socialists. The Vietnamese refugees as well as the hated Cubans tend to vote Republican.
Well, yeah, but the Vietnamese refugees weren’t being brought here to destroy the country.
That is certainly true in my neighborhood.
Exactly. The Cloward and Piven strategy. Overwhelm the US taxpayers with government dependents and destroy the system from within. Then impose your own brand of Communism with your friends and family members serving as oligarchs.
One of Biden’s first votes was to cut off funding to Vietnam and Cambodia, leading to millions slaughtered in the Killing Fields. Joe has a lot of blood on his hands.
So do I. I haven’t been to The Wall. I don’t know really what to make of it’s design.
bttt
The parents voted republican.
Public schools turned the kids into lefties.
Dems should have taken the long view here.
That's how we got 45-50 million illegal aliens welcomed into the country and given their share of the basket of the taxpayer's earnings...
Exactly.
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