Originally posted by gwellington:

Witness the massive Christmas bombing campaign, and their illegal 1970 "secret" invasion of Cambodia, which caused a backlash leading to the Kent State massacre, and which ultimately turned the tide of opinion among Middle America, who did not look kindly at their children being gunned down on college campuses. My opinion, of course, but I can in no way see Nixon as having "ended" the war.



What you are really saying is that my uncle Dick actually TRIED to fight the war (that he inherited from the Dems) by FINALLY dealing with the fact that the enemy was using the Cambodian border to play "kill and hide" with our G.I.s, as well as stepping up bombing. Indeed in hindsite, he would have been better off getting us out immediately after taking office. But I think he was trying to avoid the defeat which he knew would be a thorn in our side ever since (certainly it emboldened the communists, contributing to the cold war). That it was an unpopular war was of course not his fault nor his agenda (actually it was counter his US-Chinese relations ajenda).

It is surprising how many young, impressionable liberals, even with a college education in cases, believe that Nixon/Republicans started the war....and are shocked to learn otherwise. Clearly, their history teachers failed them.

But the topic was the economy this time folks..

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