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Argument: Withdrawing from Vietnam did not undercut US credibility and it won't in Iraq either
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- Leslie Gelb. "Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad?". Time. Oct. 15, 2006 - "We expected China and the Soviet Union would be ascendant, that allies like Japan and South Korea would doubt our resolve and reposition themselves, and that North Vietnam would claim the rest of Indochina. Almost none of that happened.
- Three years later, the standing and power of the U.S. in Asia were greater than at any other time since the end of World War II. Our friends and allies in the region were worried about communist ascendancy, as we were, and they all rallied behind us. They understood clearly that their security depended on our presence and power in Asia. And so the dominoes never fell."