Our computer opens on a Microsoft page with all sorts of clickbait articles on it. Lately, they’ve had several pages “devoted” to the Vietnam War - all of which, coincidentally include antiwar demonstrations and pictures of Ho Chi Minh.
The Left is still trying to sell the fiction that the enemy - the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army - were wonderful people and the young American men were a combination of inept and war criminals.
We were good, solid, and competent, the Vietnamese were good people and needed our help and enemy was scum. I am and always be proud of us - and still hate the Left for their treason.
As the historical record indicates.
The U.S. withdrew its forces at its convenience and the Left wing of our Congress thereupon suspended aid to SVN. When the North violated the Peace Treaty a few years later, the Left looked the other way.
The Left, of course, enjoys advancing the myth that since it ultimately conquered SVN the U.S. "lost the war".
May Walter Cronkite, McNamara and Westmorland burn in hell for eternity. All three should have been on their knees every night at the Black Wall of the Vietnam Memorial begging for forgiveness until their death. They did not understand this simple concept of war, "If you are not willing to kill your enemy and all that stand with him, surrender for you have already lost."
I thank every Vietnam Vet of the U.S. or ARVN for their fight that kept Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia free of communist enslavement, saving millions of lives.
“this sorest spot in the national psyche”
Not knowing LBJ and McNamara are roasting in hell is the sorest spot.
Thanks to RVN and our troops, the Soviet Union never got Saigon as their Pacific warm water port which made winning the Cold War a lot easier.
It was won.
The problem was it didn’t stay won.
A wise man once said, if you trip over a stone on life's journey, don't pick it up. Vietnam is the stone America can't/won't stop lugging around.
Ike warned JFK not to get into a ground war in Asia. Kennedy didn't listen but he should have.
John Paul Vann had a strategery that might actually have enabled the South Vietnamese to win the war for themselves. Nobody who counted listened to him either but maybe they should have. They couldn't have done any worse.