So how'd we lose to the Viet Cong?
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“So how’d we lose to the Viet Cong?”
It is long past time for every American to be aware that we did *not* lose to the Viet Cong. In fact, our response to the 1968 Tet betrayal crushed the VC so completely that they were never again a significant element in the war.
While I’m on this soapbox, I’ll also mention that we defeated the North Vietnamese Army as well. We beat them like a drum made out of a baby seal, hung on the back of a rented mule ridden by a red-headed step-child who owns a used carpet store.
Then, through Nixon’s Vietnamization plan we built up the RVN forces sufficiently that they could defend themselves with only materiel assistance from us. In the “peace” negotiations, we forced an agreement that should have resulted in a situation much like that on the Korean Peninsula.
Since Nixon had no Internet, the fakenews coup against him succeeded. This allowed leftwad traitors in the legislature to cut off the promised materiel support to South Vietnam, despicably betraying them into the merciless hands of their enemies. The ensuing blood bath was so atrocious that many South Vietnamese found it preferable to be raped and murdered by Thai pirates.
We won the Vietnamese war decisively.
Soviet analysts credit their expenditures on the war with precipitating the collapse of the communist system at least ten years before it would otherwise have occurred.