It did lean left but not as bad as I expected. I didn’t serve because of my age but I was a precocious consumer of Huntley-Brinkley and US News and World Report and remember every bit of it. Kennedy and Johnson made a mess and didn’t try to win. We should have bombed the Communists back to the stone age before they had SAM missiles. We were too squeamish. It takes nerve in a war like that.
>>We should have bombed the Communists back to the stone age before they had SAM missiles. We were too squeamish.
“We should have bombed the dykes and dams around Hanoi at the height of the monsoon. We’d have washed a million of them out to sea.”
Opinion of a close friend’s O-7 father who had been the U.S adviser to a RVN province chief c. 1972.
In retrospect, I guess you could say he was a fan of LeMay.