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Entry: Ron Paul and Pius IX Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ron_paul_and_pius_ix#16351 Post contents: It is sickening to see so many otherwise intelligent people misinterpret what happened in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was lost by the United States government, which fought to lose. It did not permit the South to attack its mortal foe, the North. But the war itself was just. The North consisted of Communist aggressors. It was in the interest of the United States to help the South, indeed it was the DUTY of the United States to help out another potential victim of Communism. There was nothing wrong with providing military assistance. So many paleoconservatives' view of foreign affairs seems to be harshly "realist" and amoral: never help anyone else, ever, unless your own country's life is at stake. Otherwise screw everyone, let them all die their own deaths. I would not want that to happen to this country if it was stuck in mortal peril. I would hope we'd have allies who would help us. The problem with the Vietnam War was not that the United States helped out innocent victims of aggression, but that the U.S. govt. fought the war so stupidly. The soldiers should be proud of their service. It is snide, dishonest, and unjust to oversimplify the war in this way, to confuse ends and means, to confuse tactics and strategy, etc. Sent at: 2008 08 29