"HeyBub" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Nixon, who you categorize as slimey, opened access to Red China and
ended the Viet Nam war, yet he is villified for trying to jack with
the Democrats. Oh well.

Maybe I was hallucinating, but I seem to recall our embassy staff
being hustled off a rooftop in a helicopter. Nixon had no choice but
to end the war.

You don't remember too well.

Nixon ended the war with a peace treaty (in 1973 which earned Nobel Prizes
for Kissinger and the North Vietnam representative). Our embassy in Viet
Nam was evacuated, and Saigon fell, on April 30, 1975, nine months into
President Ford's administration. Most believe South Vietnam fell because
the Democrats passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974 which cut off all
funding to support the South and effectively nullified the peace agreement
worked out by Nixon.


There are idiots in some newsgroups who think you can go forward
knowing nothing about history. This is why we failed in Vietnam, why
we will fail in Iraq, and why we are on the cusp of either failing or
succeeding in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Knowing "nothing" about history can be fixed. What cannot be fixed is
knowing something that is wrong.


Peace treaty in 1973. Saigon falls in 1975. Got it.

As far as fixing ignorance, you have seen that it is usually too late. We're
seeing it now in Iraq. Your president told the country "I don't read much.
Mostly newspapers." If your doctor told you that and you had a brain in your
head, you'd be out the door quickly.