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wade said:But these decisions are made after the fact. And the cause does not need to be just, look at the Spanish-American war. We won, but our position was hardly just. We just wanted what the Spanish were too week to hold so we took it.
And what about the Indian wars? You going to try to say this was a "just" cause? Wars are won by power and commitment, right and wrong have little to do with it.
Wade.
sighs maybe i need to make this clearer
so long as the cause is just and the people believe in it.
Vietnam deffinately was a just war. we were fighting to prevent the spread of totalitarianist regimes in Southeast asia. Problem is the people waviered in their belief in the cause. And because of that millions of people will killed because of our failure to follow through with Vietnam. Sometimes I wonder how those anti vietnam war protesters must feel to know that their actions caused the death of all those innocent people under the hands of communist thugs.