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Three months after Nixon was gone, we got the Watergate
Congress and with it, the new Democratic Party. In lieu of the
old Democratic Party, which lost wars out of incompetence and
naivete, the new Democratic Party would lose wars on purpose.
Just one month after the Watergate Congress was elected, North
Vietnam attacked the South.
Even milquetoast, pro-abortion, detente-loving Gerald R. Ford
knew America had to defend South Vietnam or America's word would
be worth nothing. As Ford said, "American unwillingness to
provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives
could seriously affect our credibility throughout the world as an
ally." He pleaded repeatedly with the Democratic Congress simply
to authorize aid to South Vietnam -- no troops, just money.
But the Democrats turned their backs on South Vietnam,
betrayed an ally and trashed America's word. Within a month of
Ford's last appeal to Congress to help South Vietnam, Saigon
fell.
The entire world watched as American personnel desperately
scrambled into helicopters from embassy rooftops in Saigon while
beating back our own allies, to whom we could offer no means of
escape. It was the most demeaning image of America ever
witnessed, until Britney Spears came along.
Southeast Asia was promptly consumed in a maelstrom of
violence that seems to occur whenever these "Jeffersonian
Democrats" come to power. Communist totalitarians swept through
Laos, Cambodia and all of Vietnam. They staged gruesome massacres
so vast that none other than Sen. George McGovern called for
military intervention to stop a "clear case of genocide" in
Cambodia.
Five years after that, Islamic lunatics in Iran felt no
compunction about storming the embassy of what was once the
greatest superpower on Earth and taking American citizens hostage
for 14 months. To this day, al-Qaida boosts the flagging morale
of its jihadists by reminding them of America's humiliating
retreat from Vietnam.
In addition to being wrong about Ford's pardon of Nixon,
liberals were wrong about a few other things from that era.
Democrats haven't admitted error in rejecting Ford's pleas on
behalf of South Vietnam because there are still dangerous
foreigners trying to kill Americans. Nixon is safely interred in
the ground, but the enemies of America continue to need the
Democrats' help. |