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Text Box: animosity between North and South. The South also had a very large Roman Catholic, and a small Orthodox Catholic, population. In the Tet Offensive (January 31, 1968) the North Vietnamese expended their military strength against the South Vietnamese and United States military. It was a bold military move, but South Vietnamese forces, with the assistance of U.S. forces, soon destroyed the North Vietnamese forces. The North Vietnamese made contact with the French to initiate peace negotiations, and then, on February 27, 1968, well respected new anchor Walter Cronkite made his famous “no way we can win” speech during his news broadcast. Cronkite was, next to Edward R. Murrow, the most respected television journalist. The popular attitude was, “If ‘Uncle Walter’ says we can not win, we can not win.” Cronkite had announced the murder of President Kennedy to the nation and the world, and had hosted several series about World War II, which he had covered as a reporter. Therefore, despite the fact that North Vietnamese forces had been virtually destroyed, and the North Vietnamese had begun the process of suing for peace, popular public opinion in the United States swung into strong opposition to the war as unwinable, simply because “Uncle Walter” said so. The North Vietnamese, seeing this, withdrew their peace proposals. However, South Vietnam proved to be a very difficult military objective as long as it received military funding from the United States. Without the assistance of the large U. S. military presence which once supported it, the South successfully withstood everything the North could throw at it, until the Congress of the United States withdrew military funding to South Vietnam in late 1974, for the 1975, budget. Literally without the ability to buy bullets for their soldier’s guns, South Vietnam fell to the North on April 30, 1975. By 1979, the Communist Vietnamese government had directly and through its policies killed ten million people in Vietnam and the surrounding countries. For a

Text Box: country like Cambodia, with a population of only seven million, this was devastating. The policy which lead to American involvement was the “Domino Theory Principle”, which held, simply stated, since Communist China has great influence in its part of the world, the fall of any part of Indochina, Burma, Thailand, the Peninsula, and Indonesia, could easily lead to a domino effect. Were one to fall it could lead to the fall of the next, and so on. This would restrict the trading partners of Japan, Formosa, the Philippines and southward, possibly threatening even Australia and New Zealand. This, in part, is exactly what did happen, with Japan and Formosa eventually regrouping to engage in trade with the Communist countries thereby staving off what could have been very horrible for those places. However, in Indonesia, the Philippines and southward, Islam took advantage of the chaos, and now controls those areas - and those areas are hostile not only to the U.S.A., but to any and all Christian people and areas, as well as to any and all non-Muslims. This too has a very important spiritual parallel. Non only has The Domino Theory been proven accurate in the political - government arena, it has proven to be true in the moral arena. Not just in matters of Christianity and the True Church, but in plain, simple, morality. Again, by way of example, the right of privacy was created as a legal right, and then formed into the right to do what ever a person desired to do, unless it effected another person who had the ability to fight back. And then, the effected person had to fight back and fight back very strongly. But those who could not fight back, and those who did not fight back, were doomed.

Text Box: Created but yet to be born babies are unable to fight back. They are unable to protect themselves. Indeed, they have the God given right to expect they will be protected, especially by their mothers. They were the first to lose. Those not directly effected by the immoral activities of others often failed to oppose those immoral activities, until the immoral activities became so firmly entrenched as to become custom, so as to become as entrenched as though a right - just as segregation and racial discrimination, and before it, overt and out right slavery, were entrenched as rights. When opposition to the entrenchment of immorality and Godlessness began to form, the proponents of immorality began a public relations war. Just as “Uncle Walter” had made his declaration which many took as fact, so too did his students make similar proclamations: that one need not follow direction especially that given by some entity called God, and that one person is not allowed to impose their own sense of morality upon another. But in the mater of yet to be born children, those who advocated protecting the children were not attempting to impose a new law or a new morality, but were attempting to protect existing human life and the rights held by that existing life. The “Uncle Walter's” misdirected the public, misrepresented the truth, and won the day for evil. The result makes the results of withdrawal of financial support for South Vietnam appear to be nothing, and that South Vietnamese situation resulted in the deaths of ten million people. This shows us that we must accurately assess what the “pundits of sin” proclaim. When someone advocates immorality they must be opposed, they must be fought, they must be attacked and their immoral position attacked - not with guns and bullets, but with the moral forces readily available.

Text Box: The right of privacy was created as a legal right, and then formed into the right to do what ever a person desired to do, unless it effected another person who had the ability to fight back. And then, the effected person had to fight back and fight back very

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