Many national public leaders, including John McCain, who speak about completing the job we’ve begun in Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East, and freedom to its people; compare the horrible results of what happened in Vietnam because we didn’t finish the job we went there to do to what would happen in Iraq if we left early.
This post from Chiesa about the struggles of the Catholic faithful to be allowed to practice their religion in Vietnam, is one stark reminder (regarding religious freedom, a core principle of individual freedom) of what happened to that unfortunate country once we left in 1975.
One result was the confiscation of all Catholic Church property in South Vietnam—it had already been confiscated in North Vietnam during the 1950’s—which Vietnamese Catholics are now demonstrating, peacefully, in the streets to have returned to the Church.
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.