[Vision2020] A Major Vietnam/Iraq Parallel

[Tom Hansen]

Quotes from Presidents Johnson and Nixon -

 

In 1968 President Johnson assumed full responsibility for failures in
Vietnam (a lesson that President Bush has yet to learn).

 

In 1969, President Nixon spoke of shared responsibility in war, something he
failed to learn from.

 

The Vietnam War officially ended on August 31, 1975.

 

"With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under
challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace
in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a
day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than
the awesome duties of this office--the Presidency of your country.
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my
party for another term as your President."

 

- Lyndon B. Johnson (March 31, 1968)

 

"We Americans are a do-it-yourself people. We are an impatient people.
Instead of teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves.
And this trait has been carried over into our foreign policy. In Korea and
again in Vietnam, the United States furnished most of the money, most of the
arms, and most of the men to help the people of those countries defend their
freedom against Communist aggression. 

Before any American troops were committed to Vietnam, a leader of another
Asian country expressed this opinion to me when I was traveling in Asia as a
private citizen. He said: 'When you are trying to assist another nation
defend its freedom, U.S. policy should be to help them fight the war but not
to fight the war for them.'"

- Richard Nixon (November 3, 1969)

 

 

 

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