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From: crm@rti.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam
Message-ID: <1177@rti.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 18:06:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  8 18:06:09 1984
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You are right.  there are those among us who refuse to admit that the
"war was wrong."  Including me.

The problem is that no-one has ever talked about the strategic reasons why we
might have preferred that Indochina didn't become controlled by essentially
hostile other countries.

Had we won the Indochina war, there might very well have been SIX MILLION FEWER D
FEWER DEATHS in Cambodia, and Thailand, a peaceful country itself, would
not be fighting a prepetual border war against people FROM OUTSIDE THE
COUNTRY ATTEMPTING CONQUEST BY FORCE.

The chance to prevent this is in itself sufficient moral justification for
the war.