[I. M. Trenchant]

If you want to know where the putative Vietnamese is coming from, besides South Vietnam, it is from the life-scarring knowledge that the U.S. Congress vacated the U.S. commitment to support the South Vietnamese resistance to Communist aggression after 2 million South Vietnamese (and 55,000 U.S. lives) had been sacrificed in a war which had been Americanized, and therefore made much more brutal, by JFK, when he agreed to Diem's assassination. The fact is that when Nixon let loose with the Christmas bombing of 1972, with a pledge to repeat it as often as necessary, the U.S. Congress got serious about removing Nixon from office so that it could vacate the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam. To do this, they nailed Nixon to the cross for 'Watergate', a two-bit burglary that didn't have nearly the constitutional importance of LBJ's personal order to the FBI to bug Nixon's 1968 presidential election plane. If you're right about his background, don't be too hard on the guy: he knows the Democrat U.S. Congress screwed him and his countrymen, and left them, and 3 million Cambodians, to the tender mercies of their Communist masters. The fact that this Congress will not let the same thing happen to Israel is what probably bothers him more than anything else.

[Frances_Marion]

"If you're right about his background, don't be too hard on the guy: he knows the Democrat U.S. Congress screwed him and his countrymen, and left them, and 3 million Cambodians, to the tender mercies of their Communist masters. The fact that this Congress will not let the same thing happen to Israel is what probably bothers him more than anything else."

Amen. I blame the War protesters too...