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History and the Withdrawal from Iraq

Posted July 1, 2008

History and the Withdrawal from Iraq

Obama and his Democrats eagerly promise the fastest withdrawal from Iraq. If history is any guide, the human cost of the American peace movement may be enormous. Just like it was in Vietnam…

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by J. Christoph Amberger

Baltimore — (TFN): Over the past year, Democrats have fallen all over each other promising voters they’d be the first and fastest to cut and run in Iraq. Wave a White Flag, pile out of the country, and peace will descend on the world again… much like it did after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam that every aging hippie counts among his lifetime achievements.

Of course, what they forget to mention is that throwing South Vietnam to the Communists also came at considerable human cost. The North Vietnamese killed or sent to labor camps hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese citizens. Millions of refugees, known as ‘the boat people,’ tried to escape to whatever country would take them.

At least 100,000 of them drowned fleeing the Communists. Today, over 1.2 million Vietnamese refugees still live in the United States.

A few months after the departure from Saigon, Laos fell to a Vietnamese-backed Communist force. Hundreds of thousands were killed in war, political assassination, and starvation. The Communists exterminated an estimated ten percent of the Hmong tribespeople, loyal American allies before the pullout.

In Cambodia, the Communist Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, overthrew the U.S. backed government with the help of the North Vietnamese and China. They killed an estimated 2 million Cambodians by starvation, torture, or execution — or about 30% of the Cambodian population during that time.

American withdrawal from Southeast Asia left over 3 million dead and created tens of millions of refugees. Thirty years on, Southeast Asia remains impoverished and undemocratic.

The ‘domino effect’ of the Cold War may be derided by liberals today. Of course, Vietnam was a perfect example of its validity.

Americans are getting ready to throw Iraq not just to its warring internal factions… but also to the vested interests of peace-loving, human rights-abiding regimes such as Turkey, Syria, and Iran.

Let’s hope the Democrat’s parting gift to the Iraqi people will be a shipment of “War is not the Answer” stickers.

If history is any guide, they’ll need them.

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