History (and related interesting facts)

Seven years actually.

68-75. It's twenty only if you count the bit players back in the fifties. The French and everyone else's war just as one long one.

Back to the point.

Don't want us there? Oh there were a few groups (they're in mass graves now) that desperately wanted us there. You want to talk about war as if it's something that you can approach haphazardly.

It's the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you want to fight a war I'd advise you fight it to win, that means sadly having the resolve to possibly people to it. Apart from that?

It's the American responsibility for the defense of that state, and they gave up, they pulled back and well, the body counts are on the Americans head, because it was their responsibility to protect it against that.

I recommend reading: The Black Book of Communism if you labor under some illusion we did them a favor by leaving.

Also, the fact that in hindsight America was tactically and strategically winning the war when they pulled out.

Yeah, this appeal to moralistic thinking sort of blew up in your face yeah? It's why I try to avoid that line in discussing war, sad as it is, people die in war. That they die for someone else's right to live free of communism ultimately shouldn't have mattered, both ideologically and morally