Posted on 12/23/2003 10:02:42 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:02:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Cambodians and Laotians were, for the most part, never our allies. They just hosted the NVA and Viet Cong and were the site of fighting. (I don't count as allies those who were in it for the money.)
To some extent, the same can be said of most South Vietnamese. Many of them did not actively side with the Americans, and of those who did, many were motivated by money rather than ideology.
We owe certain obligations to our allies, most of which have already been honored.
Wow. So the South Vietnamese who did the VAST majority of the bleeding and dying, you just blow them off huh? But we seem to owe an endless debt to the Hmong, most of the immigrants at this point not even having been alive during the war.
Personally, I think we payed all those debts long long ago, with 50,000 names on a wall, many more permanantely maimed, the billions in treasure, and the near destruction of our own Democracy ( which in case you havn't noticed continues apace in this particular election). No other country in history has paid so much to so few for so little.
There are Hmong among us.
And the Czechs, and the Slovaks, and the Hungarians, and The Slovenians, and the Croats...
. . . and the Estonians, and the Latvians, and the Lithuanians . . .
Much smaller numbers for them - they were never liberated. They went from Soviet occupation to Nazi occupation back to Soviet occupation.
Blame for that belongs on LBJ, McNamara and the rest of the corrupt democrats of that era. (And it is paid, not payed.)
So the South Vietnamese who did the VAST majority of the bleeding and dying, you just blow them off huh?
Unless they can show well founded fear of persecution for pro-US activities engaged in for ideological rather than economic reasons, yes. The South Vietnamese troops, well trained and well equipped, had an opportunity to fight for their country, and they ran.
Those South Vietnamese soldiers you so lightly dismiss were hit with the largest armored assault since the battle of Kursk, while deprived of the air support we had promised to deliver.
"We're being overrun by Hmongs and Hmexicans"
Mexicans legal/illegal immigrants outnumber Hmongs by 1000:1.
It was your profane language.
Mexicans legal/illegal immigrants outnumber Hmongs by 1000:1.
I was Hmaking a joke.
Ah, i'm precaffinated. Hmy bad.
really funny!!! I'll just laugh and eat some "crackers"..
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