Vietnam: When We Lost the Winnable War

American Thinker ^ | 04/19/2015 | Bruce Walker

[McGruff]

I don’t think we could even get involved in a similar war these days. With 24 Hr News Station’s live reports of casualties our leaders would be forced to withdraw. Sad but that’s the way it is nowadays.

[oh8eleven]

People shouldn’t discount the endemic corruption of the South Vietnamese regime.

Professor Turgeson: Now, can someone tell me… why, in 1975 we pulled our troops out of Vietnam?

Student: The failure of Vietnamization to win popular support… caused an ongoing erosion of confidence… in the various American… but illegal… Saigon regimes.

Professor Turgeson: Is she right? ‘Cause I know that’s the popular version… of what went on there. I know a lot of people like to believe that. I wish I could, but I was there.
I wasn’t here in a classroom… hoping I was right, thinking about it. I was up to my knees in rice paddies… with guns that didn’t work, going up against Charlie…
slugging it out with him, while pussies like you… were back here partyin’, puttin’ headbands on… doin’ drugs, listening to the g*ddamn Beatle albums!

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[<1/1,000,000th%]

We won the Vietnam War.

Vietnam was lost 2 years later when the Democrats in Congress passed a bill that stated American military forces could not be employed in southeast Asia even if that meant not honoring our treaty with South Vietnam.

Ford never signed the bill but he honored it. This was the signal to the North Vietnamese to attack.