Timeline of defeat
I passed the pop quiz in the New York Sun editorial "Timeline of defeat," only because a guilty conscience has heightened my memory of the 1974-75 era. It's the editorial of the week, concluding as follows:
What was it about the Communists that the Democrats wanted to give them Indochina, a region with as many persons as Eastern Europe? And what is it about our Islamist enemies that makes the Democrats so determined to abandon a free Iraq? The tragedy of Vietnam taught that this is the question that needs to be asked and answered and that a default will haunt the politicians now in power for generations, as their own children and the children of our GIs demand to know their motives.I touched on the issues raised by the Sun editorial in "An uncivil war?"
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