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The U.S. Defeat in Vietnam Changed Nothing

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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024
The basic immorality involved in coercion of men soon corrupts not only the wielder of such power, but those over whom the power is wielded.
– George C. Roche III
Free Markets, Free Men: Frederic Bastiat, 1801-1850 [1993]

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May 14, 2024
The U.S. Defeat in Vietnam Changed Nothing
April 30 was the anniversary date when North Vietnamese forces forced U.S. officials to exit Vietnam, much to their chagrin. That was after some 58,000 American men had died for nothing, not to mention the tens of thousands of injured American soldiers and the millions of Vietnamese who were killed or injured as a result of U.S. intervention in Vietnam’s civil war….
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