Professional moralist on foreign affairs

I find your blurring of National and Labour Foreign policy and refusal to give Labour any credit in this respect (e.g. in your recent article 'P.M. Cornered') rather amusing. I suspect it stems from an unwillingness to admit that NZ troops, after helping smash the Tet offensive and drive the Communist forces from the South Vietnamese lowlands left not because of Vietnamese communist or domestic minority group pressure, but because their presence in Vietnam simply did not accord with Labour party foreign policy in general; and that the eventual Communist takeover (one ceasefire and several years later) was received as good, rather than bad news by the N.Z. government.