Why did the Republicans "CUT AND RUN" from Korea, Vietnam, and Lebanon?

Question

Yes Republicans cut and run from these conflicts.

Even Reagan did a cut and run in 1983 from Lebanon, after hundreds of brave soldiers died.

In the end, they were all cut and runs.

Answer 1

In Vietnam we got beaten by peasants on bicycles

Answer 2

Do us a favour. And by us I mean the rest of the world who commit troops to these farce actions. I'm Australian and my family has members who have served along side US troops in wars and actions since WW2 pacific.
Every time there is an election in the US, Americans rewrite history as to each conflicts failures and successes. Whether your current president made mistakes or congress cut funds really does not matter.
Stop blaming and start learning from history. America is strong and succeeds when united. Also when its allies agree with both policy and operational response.

Find a mirror and take a good hard look. Were you one of the many impressed by the "shock and awe" bombing at the start of the war. If so you are part of the target market for that PR campaign and also part of the problem. As long as the US public demands TV filling action in order to support a war then US military strategy is flawed.
If you stop kicking your presidents from both sides (yes Australia was in Somalia too when Bill ran the show) they may have enough support to change your military / generals / strategic methods. At present that is the biggest point of failure in everything except Panama and Grenada.
Look at what military actions have ended well for the US in the last 50 years versus those that went quietly off the front page. The ratio is not good.
When you use a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, the nuts get nervous. Some start throwing themselves against the handle.
If you want to electioneer on the basis of war ask the guys coming in the tough questions. Forget troop numbers and dollars. Forget blame, Look for change in the war room. And pray the new guy has read a history book.
As for "cut and run", an orderly retreat can often leave opening in the enemies extension beyond what he knows. Besides there is no where to run in an APC.

Answer 3

Korea - Once China entered the conflict the UN forces started getting their butt kicked and decided on a truce to avoid a complete loss.
Vietnam - The US was supporting a corrupt government they had installed. Ho Chi Min was fighting to unite his country under self rule after years of foreign rule, because of this he was able to gain more support from the Vietnamese people. For the same reasons it became an unpopular war in America and Australia and pressure grew on both governments to withdraw the troops.
Lebanon - A very twisted situation as is the Middle East generally. The US government is more concerned with supporting Israel then actually brokering a peace deal.

Answer 4

It wasn't called "cut and run" then, so the term didn't apply.

You're missing the point of the argument. It's not what you do, but what you call it that matters. That's why we don't have a troop escalation, only a "surge". And any plan other than blindly pressing forward is "cut and run" even if no cutting or running is involved.

That's the beauty of spin. The words don't actually have to mean anything -- they just have to provoke an emotional response that gets you what you want.

Answer 5

It was because President Johnson escalated the efforts in Vietnam with a draft, it was the Vietnamese Tet Offensive that made the Republicans run from the war. They were the most predominate of the protesters and prominent of the draft dodgers of that time.

Answer 6

Korea- We came to a cease fire and if you remember correctly we still have about 30,000 soldiers there standing guard at the border. So that is not really cut n' run

Vietnam- If you remember, the democrat congress cut the funding for the war, so we had to leave.

Lebanon- We should have done more after that, it was a mistake to leave.

Answer 7

What historic previous classification did you flunk out of? Korea grew to become right into a UN Police action to free up South Korea from a North Korean invasion. and that's exactly what resulted. Vietnam grew to become right into a US loss because of the fact the idiots in cost refused to take and carry territory or invade North Vietnam. Lebanon? That grew to become right into a multinational peacekeeping rigidity the U. S. grew to become right into a factor of. Somalia? That grew to become right into a United countries humanitarian help venture. Iraq? the U. S. left by making use of itself. no person chased them out of there. Afghanistan? they're nevertheless there. back: no longer a defeat. Libya? That grew to become right into a UN protection rigidity Intervention that succeeded in its venture to assist the Libyan rebels of their overthrow of the Libyan dictator. Now run alongside and locate something extra effective to do mutually with it slow as a replace of coming up a fool of your self on the internet.

Answer 8

The government gets out of wars because of heavy casualties & public pressure

Answer 9

To think my county treasurer doesn't like it when I call him the tax collector. Sometimes it seems as though he takes that as an personal affront. LOL. Nothing more than a change of labels and obfuscation.

Answer 10

Why did Democrats "CUT THE FUNDS" for each of those conflicts?

I seem to remember the millions that died afterwords being on the democrats heads, not the republicans.