I saw that it was pretty good watch on rerun or get a chance watch it
The biggest lesson to learn from Vietnam was not to let politicians tell the military how to wage a war.
They blamed the Veterans then just like...
They knew exactly where they lived, who they visited, where they shopped and where they ate dinner, and when.
How you ask?
The cabbies had been providing the data on their every move for years in advance.
Soooo, where do most of the cabbies in your berg come from? In Washington DC, it's Somalia...
Just because we've forgotten the lessons of Huế and the lessons of the Sepoy Rebellion's "The Perfect Day" (scrubbed from Wiki, by the way) doesn't mean our enemies have.
The biggest lesson we haven’t learned: Don’t let liberals get their hands on the levers of power in wartime.
We elected Obama.....twice. We have a hard time learning lessons.
LBJ and not Nixon.
Vietnam fell only 6 1/2 years after Nixon took office.
I watched the documentary last night and got just as mad as I was when it happened. I’ll always blame Ford for not telling congress to go to hell and turning the B-52s lose. And the whimps in congress from both parties.
I once talked to a South Viet Nam pilot who told me in the end they only had enough fuel to get to the target and back. Spies would tell the NVA and they’d move their camps back just out of reach. He said he could see them but didn’t have the fuel to get there then back to base. Lots of those guys died fighting with “sticks” against guns.
FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.
Walter Cronkite and his traitorous buddies lost the Vietnam war.