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Saigon was soon overrun by the
North Vietnamese and communism. The US lost the war, deserted its
allies, wasted tens of thousands of American lives. |
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The United States demonstrated to
the world that its military might and its integrity and its defense
of liberty and support of democracy had limits. |
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Those limits of American strength
and integrity were set by weak politicians, students afraid of being
drafted, future politicians using self-serving war protests to
support their careers, guitar-strumming folk singers, and a public
drafted into a state of fear by the news media. |
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Today the same -- in many
instances, literally the same individuals -- are reusing their old
grandstanding speeches and songs. Today they are chanting "Out of
Iraq." |
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Today self-serving
weaklings fail to see that the conflict in Iraq is one of several fronts in
World War III, the Global War Against Terrorism. |
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The North Vietnamese wanted
control of only Vietnam. Today's fanatics want control of the world
and elimination of those they define as infidels. |
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To cut and run before the Iraqi
front is secured would open the region to a flood of terrorists and
dictators. To desert American allies as was done in Vietnam, on the
beach of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, and as America did during the 1990s in
Mogadishu and Haiti, would send an irrefutable signal to fanatics
everywhere. They would know for certain that there is no force on
earth strong enough to stave off their fanaticism. They would be
empowered to regroup, fortify, strategize, and attack across the
world at will. |
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No one would be safe anywhere.
Eventually the fanatics would strike everywhere in pursuit of their
conquest of killing all infidels... everyone who disagrees with
them... everyone who desires to live under liberty and justice for
all in a democratic and capitalistic condition. |
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