More minority opinion from Niall Ferguson: “fighting the war in Vietnam was not a mistake. Abandoning it was the mistake. I have just returned from a short tour of that country, which allowed me to see firsthand what three decades of Communist rule have achieved there. The very best that can be said is that they achieved nothing. The worst that can be said is that by throwing in the towel in 1973, the U.S. condemned South Vietnam to 30 years of repression, corruption and poverty. And the best proof that these were truly "lost years" for the people of Vietnam are the current frantic efforts of the country's leaders to bring back capitalism.”
The article, which appears in The Wall Street Journal (but behind a subscription wall), can be read in excerpted form at pro-war.com and Common Sense and Wonder.
