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Old 05-21-2010, 11:56 AM   #7
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger View Post
Sternn, that's ridiculous. People died during that invasion. You can debate what might have happened to those children had they been left behind (an exercise I would suggest is futile as we cannot know), but there's no debating the fact that those 219 children LIVED. And Betty Tisdale was there, while you were not. Unless you are questioning her motivations, which I think would be spectacularly stupid, I think it's fair to trust her judgment (and the judgment of the South Vietnamese government that decided it was a good idea for her to take those orphans.) Actually, you were questioning her motivation - suggesting that she was "only" doing it because she thought her country was somehow superior. You actually think she didn't care about those kids ... that she was just instituting a propaganda campaign?

And asking "are they really better off being taken from their country and put in America by an American who is doing it only because they think their country is somehow superior" suggests that adopting a foreign baby is a selfish and harmful act. That is also ridiculous ... and a bit of reverse racism. I saw nothing in that article that supports that ... except the fact that when Betty first got involved with the Orphanage the babies were being kept in very poor conditions, which suggests that America WAS a superior place to raise the children. The idea of moving the children to the U.S. only occurred to Betty after the impending arrival of the North Vietnamese appeared to be a threat to their well-being ... she was first involved for some time just trying to improve the conditions at the orphanage.

Your continual anti-American bias does not always serve you well. You are misguided in this opinion. I've not heard any of those 219 orphans who wish they had been left behind.
Oh, I didn't see this. Thanks random person who bumped? Anyway, it did happen, in which people found out that "orphans" sent to America turned out not to be orphans after all, some where given away by their parents since they were afraid that they might be killed in the crossfire, and some were separated from their parents and they never found each other until the children were able to visit Vietnam and look for them. There is a lot of kidnapping in some countries too for terrible adopt agencies, I don't think considering the atrocities that happened in Vietnam that its a stretch to say that it could have happened. That said, thats totally not what Betty did.
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