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[Nomorelies]

If found this excellent letter at: http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/fonda/response3.html

It was written by Ryan Lee. I think he wrote very succintly and explained what was lost when we failed to finish what we started. The young idealogues (Fonda and Kerry) embraced socialist values and allowed themselves to be used to discredit an honest effort to help the South Vietnamese maintain independence. Over 58,000 Americans died in this cause to what avail? So that John Kerry could rise again? Please read this:


One ideology is not the moral equivilant of all others.
The Vietnam war cannot ever be placed in any context other than ideological- it was the power of private ownership of property, of open free markets, to uplift humanity from warlords, from feudalism, that drove the Brits, the French, and the US and allies to fight for southeast asia for fifty years. Do you forgive Fonda et al for favoring the warlords over her own country 1) because she is a naive ingenue? or 2) because communism was/is attractive to young people in the 30s and 60s hoping for a utopian governmental system? or 3) because the subsequent Vietnamese misery continues to be dour and repressive? What such a suggestion implies is that all positions in the 60s regarding the Vietnam War were honorable if strongly felt, and honorably and vigorously pursued.
That is bizarre.

I pray that we, as a nation, start to learn the lessons history begs us to know.
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