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Posted on: March 11, 2021 at 15:54:15 CT
Spanky KU
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The Administration's Vietnam policy has failed—militarily, politically, diplomatically, and with relation to our own people.

We condemn the Administration's breach of faith with the American people respecting our heavy involvement in Vietnam. Every citizen bitterly recalls the Democrat campaign oratory of 1964: "We are not about to send American boys 9-10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." The Administration's failure to honor its own words has led millions of Americans to question its credibility.

The entire nation has been profoundly concerned by hastily extemporized, undeclared land wars which embroil massive U.S. armed forces thousands of miles from our shores. It is time to realize that not every international conflict is susceptible of solution by American ground forces.

Militarily, the Administration's piecemeal commitment of men and material has wasted our massive military superiority and frittered away our options. The result has been a prolonged war of attrition. Throughout this period the Administration has been slow in training and equipping South Vietnamese units both for fighting the war and for defending their country after the war is over.

Politically, the Administration has failed to recognize the entirely novel aspects of this war. The overemphasis on its old-style, conventional aspects has blinded the Administration to the fact that the issue is not control of territory but the security and loyalty of the population. The enemy's primary emphasis has been to disrupt orderly government.

The Administration has paid inadequate attention to the political framework on which a successful outcome ultimately depends. Not only has the Administration failed to encourage assumption of responsibility by the Vietnamese, but their sense of responsibility has been in fact undermined by our approach to pacification. An added factor has been a lack of security for the civilian population.

At home, the Administration has failed to share with the people the full implication of our challenge and of our commitments.

To resolve our Vietnam dilemma, America obviously requires new leadership—one capable of thinking and acting anew, not one hostage to the many mistakes of the past. The Republican Party offers such leadership.

We pledge to adopt a strategy relevant to the real problems of the war, concentrating on the security of the population, on developing a greater sense of nation-hood, and on strengthening the local forces. It will be a strategy permitting a progressive de-Americanization of the war, both military and civilian.

We will see to it that our gallant American servicemen are fully supported with the highest quality equipment, and will avoid actions that unnecessarily jeopardize their lives.

We will pursue a course that will enable and induce the South Vietnamese to assume increasing responsibility.

The war has been conducted without a coherent program for peace.

We pledge a program for peace in Vietnam—neither peace at any price nor a camouflaged surrender of legitimate United States or allied interests—but a positive program that will offer a fair and equitable settlement to all, based on the principle of self-determination, our national interests and the cause of long-range world peace.

We will sincerely and vigorously pursue peace negotiations as long as they offer any reasonable prospect for a just peace, We pledge to develop a clear and purposeful negotiating position.

We will return to one of the cardinal principles of the last Republican Administration: that American interests are best served by cooperative multilateral action with our allies rather than by unilateral U.S. action.

Our pride in the nation's armed forces in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the world is beyond expression.

In all our history none have fought more bravely or more devotedly than our sons in this unwanted war in Vietnam.

They deserve—and they and their loved ones have—our total support, our encouragement, and our prayers.
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OUR Capitol - ummmm MU - 3/11 15:10:56
     RE: OUR Capitol - MOCO SON MU - 3/11 16:32:02
     Looks like the Vietnam War Era. You know, back when - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 15:33:25
          nm - Spanky KU - 3/11 15:50:44
               R vD! Yay! (nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 15:53:24
                    Nixon got the US out of Vietnam fairly quickly - Spanky KU - 3/11 15:56:15
                         Lol. Nixon lied about bombing Cambodia, tried to - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 15:57:47
                              Nixon lied about bombing Cambodia: So what? - BH O'bonga MU - 3/11 16:36:54
                                   and LBJ lied about Tonkin Gulf - Spanky KU - 3/11 18:17:38
                                   No (nm) - pickle MU - 3/11 17:13:17
                                   there's nothing morally justified in an immoral war (nm) - ashtray UF - 3/11 16:47:20
                                        It was an illegal war - Spanky KU - 3/11 18:11:54
                                        State worshipers like Spanky, rask and Toro are hopeless(nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 16:52:12
                                             Idiots like you who fail to formulate a fact based argument - Spanky KU - 3/11 18:09:38
                                                  I was clearly talking about the massive protests in DC - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 18:51:04
                                                       The protests against LBJ and the other ‘liberal icons’?(nm) - Spanky KU - 3/11 21:04:07
                              LBJ started the Cambodia bombing - Spanky KU - 3/11 16:05:26
                                   Is that supposed to be some refutation of Nixon - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 16:10:43
                                        Nixon was more liberal than Obama (per Obama) - Spanky KU - 3/11 16:24:51
                                             RE: Nixon was more liberal than Obama (per Obama) - sarasotatiger MU - 3/11 17:48:03
                                                  Which harkens back to this question: - Spanky KU - 3/11 17:52:27
                                             Is that why you love Nixon and hate Obama?(nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 16:53:18
                                                  Facts are hard for you to refute, eh? - Spanky KU - 3/11 16:58:49
                                                       I don't care who started the war or whether some now think - BH O'bonga MU - 3/11 17:19:42
                                                            Well... once we were lied there by LBJ, we had 2 choices - Spanky KU - 3/11 17:49:16
                                                       Yeah, he was front and center protesting the war. Not - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 17:00:53
                                                            Perhaps Nixon knew the war was a waste since he remained - Spanky KU - 3/11 17:56:15
                                                            He ended that war.... as he promised - Spanky KU - 3/11 17:16:18
          Who were the liberals then? JFK? LBJ? Humphrey? - Spanky KU - 3/11 15:39:25
               The protesters? Pretty much everyone that knew the war - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 15:46:41
                    People with words like this - Spanky KU - 3/11 15:54:15
     Apparently, it has to be protected from people like me - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 3/11 15:33:15
          You=anyone that is a lover of individual liberty (nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 15:34:36
               Individual liberty is very, very bad(nm) - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 3/11 15:42:24
                    You can't be trusted with so much freedom (nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/11 15:47:20
     what does reality say about it? (nm) - ashtray UF - 3/11 15:29:11
     Only those who bring offerings to the priests and priestess - TigerMatt STL - 3/11 15:27:59
          Being yer COVID vax card. You will need it to buy and sell(nm) - HandBanana MU - 3/11 16:20:05
     RE: OUR Capitol: Under democrat party occupation - BH O'bonga MU - 3/11 15:24:59
     Thieves protect what they steal(nm) - TigerFan92 STL - 3/11 15:16:43
          And/or they sell out (nm) - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/11 15:21:11
          No, you're a shareholder of the entity that meets there - ummmm MU - 3/11 15:20:53




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