Reply #137: But that isn't an answer to the question

[Prism]

You may have your reasons for Vietnam withdrawal, but the functional effect of American withdrawal was the suffering of millions of Vietnamese civilians. You, seeing that potential outcome, chose withdrawal anyway, knowing those civilians would be left to that fate.

Now, you are putting forth a justification for continuing the longest war in American history, one that is sapping us economically, diplomatically, eroding our power, and further destabilizing an already unstable nuclear region, and resting all of that on the welfare of the civilian population.

There is a disconnect in this, and you have not put forth any substantive argument for that disconnect. Your arguments are very nearly 180 degrees from each other. Holding opposite views requires very substantial justification, which you have failed to provide in the slightest.

This, sadly, leaves me glancing afield to wonder and assume what unspoken justifications are lurking in that chasm.