“what exactly did we accomplish in vietnam?”
1. Generally speaking, opposing evil is the right thing to do.
2. The Viet Nam war moved up the collapse of the Soviet Union by ten years, according to Soviet Analysts.
3. Militarily, we saved the South Vietnamese from being reduced under a murderous communist tyranny. This victory was subsequently undone by Ted Kennedy and other traitors against the human race—all elected by the demonrats.
I have to go do real-world stuff now. Won’t be replying for a while.
“2. The Viet Nam war moved up the collapse of the Soviet Union by ten years, according to Soviet Analysts.”
Possibly. I’ll posit ‘inadvertently’ by most of those in charge on our side however.
We (the ptb’s) fought in vietnam like the current crop of gop pres candidates fight in the general. With a great lack of will and motivation. They do, but they don’t really MEAN it. It’s a money making endeavor for them that someone else takes the risk for...(ie bullets, death, wound)
No disrespect to the grunts who got shot at and died there.
‘Red Kennedy’ isn’t someone other than us btw. The US government abandoned the south vietnamese. I have my own theory why we were there but the ‘save vietnam from communism’ was only a platitude floated to the masses, not the reason the elites were there.