I am glad to read about this forum. The effort by the US in Vietnam was, in my opinion, an unarguably noble one -- to stop the spread of Marxism in southeast Asia. Now with the decline of Marxism on a global scale, the real horrors of it are beginning to be understood.

I heard a Buddhist man from Cambodia speak here in Texas last year about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. His wife was pregnant with twins when the communists took over. Because it was "unacceptable" to bring more babies into the society at that particular time, the babies were strangled immediately after birth. The parents could do nothing about it. They will carry their grief with them to their graves.

Such inhuman evils were common in Cambodia, and all because Marxism did indeed win in Vietnam, then it spread like a cancer to the surrounding countries. Why anybody still thinks the people of Southeast Asia would have been worse off with an American victory in Vietnam is beyond me.

I congratulate you on your upcoming forum.