“Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields.’”
“Then as now, people argued that the real problem was America’s presence, and that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end,” Bush said. “The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be,” he added.
Gee George, it would have been much better if you’d thought about that before you sent the troops in.
