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Another example of the disgusting....
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   ....[1]hubris of my generation appeared in a brief comment by
   columnist Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times.

     Death of defeatism
     A thousand bucks will buy you a flight to Hanoi â $1,057 to be
     exact, on a major airline, according to something called
     cheapflights. com. Though I imagine there are a few layovers
     involved, just looking up the price made me want to go.
     Hanoi is the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, as the
     country has been known for the past 30 years, ever since the United
     States pulled out and the Communist north invaded and conquered the
     South. About 80 million people live in Vietnam, and it is seldom in
     the news.
     Turned out, the fall of Vietnam did not cause the nations around it
     to topple âlike dominoesâ to the Communist menace. The 57,000
     American soldiers who died there died trying to stop something
     that, when it occurred, was not the awful outcome we had been told
     it would be.
     A bit of history that keeps rapping insistently at the back of my
     mind whenever the administration talks about how crucial victory in
     Iraq is to the War on Terror.

   Notice how cavalierly Steinberg dismisses the deaths of millions?
   After the US left Vietnam, more than 3.5 million died in Cambodia,
   Laos and Vietnam. Those deaths are directly attributable to the US'
   abandonment of Vietnam. Yet Steinberg (and most liberals like him)
   dismiss those deaths as nothing more than a blip on their radar
   screen.
   John Kerry testified before Congress that, in his estimation, perhaps
   "3,000" would die if we abandoned Vietnam. We just went to war over
   the deaths of 3000! Yet to Kerry and liberals like him, that was a
   mere trifle. The cost of getting the US out of a war we never should
   have been in, supposedly.
   What of Steinberg's dismissal of the domino theory? Vietnam is
   communist. Cambodia was communist for quite some time while 2.5
   million people were being slaughtered in the killing fields. Laos is
   still communist.
   It would be nice if, just once, liberals could stop lying about the
   facts. It would be nice if, just once, they could actually face the
   ugly reality of their support for murderous regimes that slaughtered
   millions. From the middle east to Africa to southeast asia, they have
   been wrong time and time again. Their myopia has cost the world
   millions and millions and millions of lives. Yet they continue to deny
   the truth.
   Now they want us to believe that if we simply ignore the problem of
   Islamofacism, it will somehow disappear. Why should be believe them
   now when their track record is so completely abysmal?

References

   1. http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/114957,CST-NWS-stein29.article