In Bob Ferguson’s Jan. 17 letter, “Ready to debate Vietnam critics,” he says he wants to debate about Vietnam. Debate what? One can only surmise his point and his involvement in Vietnam. Apparently his grandson asked him, “Why did you lose the Vietnam war”? He didn’t say what he answered.
Soldiers, if Ferguson was one, don’t lose wars; nations do. Nations lose because their “cause” is unjust. In World War II, Germany, Japan, Italy, lost. Their cause was unjust. Vietnam should not have happened, nor Iraq, nor Afghanistan, either, for what is the just cause? That is the debate our Congress should have had beforehand!
“Congress shall declare war” is a simple statement in our American Constitution. Soldiers don’t lose wars.
