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Pete Chagnon p>Excellent piece, Mr. Bowman. p>I am often told by my naive (not Native) American and South African friends that America lost the Vietnam war. p>On the contrary Vietnam was battle that America fought to save SE Asia from totalitarianism. And today Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and strangely even Vietnam are the beneficiaries of America's sacrifice. p>Vietnam was merely a battle lost to win the Cold War. Take heed cut and runners! BR>-- Marc de Jong BR>Johannesburg, South Africa p> GOOD RIDDANCE BR>Re: David Hogberg's M Republicans in Recovery : p>In '90 Bush 41 raised taxes at exactly the wrong time, as both a recession and a war were beginning. (Clinton, by the way, craftily raised taxes well after the recovery was under way, which is the right time, if there is such a time, to raise taxes.) Bush 41 also broke a campaign promise when he raised taxes. While I wished him re-election I wasn't upset when he lost -- he deserved to. He (1) made a foolish decision and (2) went back on his word. (I admit that I became very upset later, when Bill Clinton proved himself to be everything a man should not be.) But Bush 41's tax fiasco combined with Clinton's reckless attempted takeover of health care, a seventh of the national economy, created the environment for the conservative resurgence in '94.

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