Tuesday, July 9, 2013

"No peace, no honor": US may pull all troops out of Afghanistan next year

No more French surrender jokes, OK?

American Thinker  "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is acting more and more like the last president of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu. This, from Thieu's obit in the New York Times in 2001:
But a recently published book by Larry Berman, ''No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam,'' (The Free Press), draws on previously secret archives to show that President Richard M. Nixon and Henry S. Kissinger, then the national security adviser, ignored Mr. Thieu's objections to their peace negotiations with Hanoi and agreed to withdraw American troops from Vietnam without any guarantees that North Vietnam would respect the Paris peace accords of 1973.
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George Orwell said that the easiest way to end a war is to lose it. One more connection Obama has to 1984.

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