Why America’s Pullout From Vietnam Worked (Barf Alert)

Newsweek/MSNBC ^ | Aug 23, 2007 | Michael Hirsh

[Pontiac]

You can't get this stupid without drinking... a lot...

Oh I don’t know?

If you saw a couple of Michael Moore movies, maybe.

[gridlock]

If you saw a couple of Michael Moore movies, maybe.

But I can't sit through a Michael Moore movie without drinking... a lot!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In the waning days of that epochal year, 1991, the propaganda against American involvement in Southeast Asia was suddenly no longer politically correct.

That works just fine - if America's Pullout the Democratic Party's bugout from Vietnam occurred in 1990. But here's a news flash for Michael Hirsh: the Democratic Party's bugout from Vietnam occurred during the Ford Administration - that is, over 15 years earlier. And many others have graphically illustrated what happened to the last people who trusted the government of the US and the Democratic Party when the US reneged on a comittment.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Because a whole bunch of little yellow people that the left doesn’t like were brutally slaughtered?

[MrB]

Leftists never make a cause-effect connection between their actions (or inactions) and the actual results.

All that matters is how they FEEEEEEL about an issue, and their intentions.

[savedbygrace]

Here’s the address to Email the author:

webeditors@newsweek.com

[dan1123]

This was the “harsh” aftermath that George W. Bush attempted to describe this week when he warned against pulling out of Iraq as we did in Vietnam.

No it wasn't. President Bush was referring to events in the 1970s, not the 1990s. It's like the left has a mental disorder that works around the immediate postwar history of Vietnam.

The decision to pull out had very little effect on the ultimate outcome.

Yeah, so over a generation after the Vietnam war, things begin to start looking positive for Vietnam, so things were never bad there after 1975 (/s). And of course, he has a magical historical what-if box that tells him if the Vietnam War never happened, it would not have affected Russia's relationship with China, the fall of the Berlin wall, or the end of the USSR.

[dan1123]

It's amazing how much misinformation Hirsh crams into a single sentence.

It only makes sense if you live in leftist delusional fairyland. It's actually a good debate technique. The unaware public gets presented a fairyland instead of the real world where leftist ideas always seem to fail and the facts never seem to go their way.