I may take some heat for this,but I find it hard to believe that we won the war,when the civilian government of the US lost it for us. The American military did not lose it,our treasonous elites did...deliberately. South Vietnam fell to the communists. I can’t call that a victory. For a long time after the war I wouldn’t watch anything on the tube about it.Of course,Jimmy Carter didn’t make things any better,by pardoning the draft dodgers. I better stop now,before I ramble too much.
I thought Ford pardoned the draft dodgers as a conciliatory gesture.
If half the statements attributed to presidents, politicians, and military leaders in the Burns series are true, one can legitimately question whether or not we should have sent troops to South Vietnam. Eisenhower & Kennedy didn’t think it feasible to fight there, and I can’t for the life of me figure out what Johnson expected when he escalated the war.
rlmorel has it right. The military won the war in 1973. After Nixon’s resignation and the withdrawal of our ground troops, the Dems in Congress passed a bill blocking the US from supporting the South in the event of a Northern incursion. Ford never signed the bill but adhered to it anyway.
It’s another reason foreign countries don’t trust us. Every time the Dems come into power, treaties and agreements are subordinated to their desparate need for bribes and corruption to fund their political machines.