Yes, his time to respond in thirty-second sound bytes at debates and during TV interviews isshort and does not allow for an exhaustive answer, but he needs to make some effort to point these things out for three reasons:
For one, he needs to do this in order not to give his interventionist detractors ammunition for unjustified attacks on his non-interventionist stance.
The other reason is that he needs to avoid alienating nearly a million Vietnamese who live in this country today as a living testimonial to the horrific human loss, agony, and displacement caused by misguided, unconstitutional, and therefore illegal policies of modern-day interventionists.
And, last not least, in order not to diminish the sacrifice of the surviving brave US soldiers who fought i Vietnam with their hands tied behind their backs, not knowing what their interventionist masters had secretly wrought against them, against humanity, and against human freedom, period.
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