FPI’s Mark Moyar reviews “A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA” by Joshua Kurlantzick: The forsaking of the Hmong and of Laos in general—along with the far larger abandonment of South Vietnam—spawned doubts that the United States would stick by its allies elsewhere in the world. The events of the past eight years have had much the same effect. Ronald Reagan showed that the U.S. can restore its credibility, but it took skill, vision and perseverance to do so then, and it will surely take more of the same to do so now. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
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