All brought to you by a Dem House and Senate.
All brought to you by a Dem House and Senate.
Like wise with Afghanistan
It’s surprising the Democrats are not holding celebrations today to commemorate the fall of Saigon and the communist victory over the United States in Vietnam.
The media has always used misleading photos to show the Vietnam military in a bad light.
The media was and is always giving the impression the American military is fleeing South Vietnam in a chaotic panic when it wasn’t even there since South Vietnam fell years after we left, or that Americans were burning that little girl with Napalm although the Americans weren’t involved in the incident, or that all our soldiers did was suffer wounds and defeatism and using Zippos on thatch huts, or that the VC were dominating us and our installations during Tet.
Just like 0’Biden’s withdraw from Afghanistan.
The Cambodian holocaust was a result of the Democrats abandonment of South Vietnam.
In hindsight - what was the best policy on Vietnam the USA could have taken back in 1962?
Do nothing?
South Vietnam fell because the double-minded and weak Leftist leaders in America had no commitment or intention of doing what it would take to actually win the war.
“the subjugation of millions, and the opening act of a Communist bloodbath across Southeast Asia”
That’s what it was.
And the Left - Tom Hayden, SDS, Weathermen and other flotsam and jetsam - denied that it would all happen for years before...it did.
Never Forget.
50 years after Saigon and 4 years after Afghanistan - brought to you by the Dems.
No brains in the politicians going in, no spines to support our friends in their need to survive.
We did the same to ukraine egging it on, and what will happen next with poor leadership there.
If only it was today and South Vietnam were called Ukraine. The left would be in full throated support of more military aid and direct intervention.
Point being, how times have changed. The once proud “anti-war at all costs” left have turned into “more war at all costs”
Trump derangement and globalism will have that effect, I suppose.
Vietnam was none of our business. We shouldn’t have gotten involved, just like Ukraine.
Very good article which lays out the betrayal by the Leftist Media and the deep state.
Biden was in his third year as a senator when Saigon fell.
Don't forget Dem. Johnson and Mcnamara micro-managing operations.
Unbeknown to most, General Giap said in his memoirs that he was ready to give up after the so-called successful Tet Offensive...which actually failed. He changed his mind after watching our news with Walter Cronkite and the hippie demonstrations against the war.
Thanks for posting.
At the war’s end - 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled.
Here’s the SOB’s that couldn’t win that war -
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963): Kennedy increased the number of U.S. military advisers in Vietnam and authorized the use of U.S. troops in combat.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969): Johnson escalated the war, deploying ground troops to Vietnam and authorizing the bombing of North Vietnam.
Richard Nixon (1969-1974): Nixon implemented a policy of Vietnamization, which aimed to reduce U.S. involvement and increase the role of South Vietnamese forces. (Dick that didn’t play out too well)
Gerald Ford (1974-1977): Ford inherited the war from Nixon and oversaw the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
(Remember pictures of those soldiers hanging off helicopters trying to evacuate)
Vietnam cost us $134.53 billion and in today’s dollars that equates to 1.020 trillion.
Heroin - Marijuana - Morale drop. Know why? Most of these fighting men LOST HOPE.
Tet Offensive, My Lai massacre- oh, and Richard Nixon had campaigned in the 1968 presidential election under the slogan that he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam and bring “peace with honor”. (Another dick head in my view)
Anyone remember, “The Pentagon Papers”
Guess I’ll just shut up B4 get t’eed off.
One more week of the total bombing at Christmas 72 and the war was won. North Vietnam was on it’s knees blasted to bits but Nixon was not interested in winning by then, only getting the POWs back. Today South Vietnam would be the mirror of South Korea had we carried through. Ao 58K Americans died for NOTHING!