Originally posted by Gixer
Because they wanted to keep their children together with their Dad's?
Understandable your patrotism towards your flag but it really does impeed on your view of the outside world at times, especially towards anyone or opinion thats anything other then red white and blue in your eyes.
Just quickly labeled as an idiot or that their facts are wrong which is a poor exit to any debate.
...-Gixer
Your opinion that I only view events blindly, through patriotic American eyes is a joke. You keep bringing it up without cause. That's no way to engage in an argument. I could use that tactic on you and your "facts" too .....but it doesn't help to make a point, does it?
When you cannot support an argument you resort to the childish tactic of assaulting my knowledge as being inferior, just because I;m American. Pretty bad form, Gixer.
You seem to be the one with a scewed view. For instance, you site figures that cannot even be verified and take them as fact. When have I done that? You call Americans arrogant and ignorant of the outside world. When have I ever done that against another person's country? I seem to be more open minded than you in that regard.
Can you please explain why over 400,000 Vietnamese fled Vietnam in the early eighties? And again in the early ninetees, another large swell of "boat people" again fled. You think they wanted to be with thier fathers? By the way, it's estimated that up to 20% or even up to half the people fleeing Vietnam died trying.
You argue points by throwing out figures such as "America killed 2 million civilians", yet you can't back them up. If you noticed, I didn't ever give a figure for civilian casualties....becasue NOBODY can. Who's being more realistic here? When have I called you an idiot?
Interesting theory you have about North Vietnamese refugees flooding into the south to escape US bombing. Can you refernce a source for that information?
Funny that the South Vietnamese didn't flood North, isn't it?
Isn't it odd that people have been fleeing all of Vietnam since the fall of the south, even today.