Letters to the Editor of Washington Post
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God save us all! In the Sunday, 11/19/2000, edition of the Washington
Post,
Rajiv Chandrasekaban reported on Mr. Bill Clinton's visit to Vietnam.
At a
site where people were digging for remains of CPT Lawrence G. Evert, Mr.
Chandrasekaban described Mr. Clinton in the following terms: "His eyes
welling with tears, Clinton watched as American experts directed
Vietnamese
laborers..."
Does Mr. Clinton think he's auditioning for an acting job in
Hollywood? This
behavior of his is a slap in the face for all Americans who served their
country in the defense of freedom for the people of South Vietnam. It
insults the memories of brave servicemen such as CPT Evert, who died as
a
result of this service, the very same service Mr. Clinton so vigorously
and
blatantly condemned, especially while on foreign soil (England).
Then, in the Washington Post of Monday, 11/20/2000, reporting further
on this
Vietnam trip, Mr. Clay Chandler reported that Mr. Clinton "urged the
heirs of
the communist revolutionaries who chased out U.S. soldiers 25 years ago
to
'liberate' their children." Where has Mr. Chandler and the Washington
Post
been all these years? U.S. soldiers were never "chased out" of Vietnam.
Because of the likes of Bill Clinton, Jane Fonda, a spineless Congress,
and
communist sympathizers in the media, U.S. forces were withdrawn from
Vietnam.
Your newspaper, and the media at large, perpetuate the myth that the
U.S.
lost the Vietnam War. The United States DID NOT lose the Vietnam War.
It
chose not to fight anymore. It could just easily have nuked North
Vietnam
into oblivion. Or given its South Vietnamese allies the means to
continue
the fight. Instead, it simply abandoned them. The Russians and the
Chinese,
on the other hand, did not abandon their North Vietnamese allies. The
South
Vietnamese, not the U.S., thus lost the Vietnam War.
Mr. Clinton's appeasement of communist or communist-like regimes has
led to
situations such as the one reported by Mr. John Pomfret in the
Washington
Post of Sunday, 11/19/2000: "Four months after the United States
pressured
Israel to cancel the sale to China of planes equipped with powerful
early
warning radar, Russia appears ready to sell its own, weaker version of
the
system to Beijing...The deal would significantly bolster China's
ability to
attack Taiwan and possibly allow China to threaten U.S. aircraft carrier
battle groups in Southeast Asia." It is just a matter of time...China,
then
North Korea...
Albert LeQuang
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