The one constant, Joe Biden. One of his first votes was for the War Powers Act. This legislation was used to COMPLETELY cut the knees out from under the South Vietnamese troops, who were fighting. Zero gallons of fuel meant zero air cover meant zero chance for our allies and South Vietnam. Same capitulation and rout in Afghanistan, same guilty party.
Biden is driven to make the wrong decision all the time.
I can’t imagine every side he took or vote he made was a bought.
Some of it is pure stupidity.
People forget the Valor of the ARVN in those last days. The NVA learned that at Xuan Loc. I do not know if arms, ammo, fuel, equipment would have resulted in a different outcome, but the NVA would have suffered a lot more. And one little story. I taught 25 years in NYC schools. My Queens school spoke 55 languages and dialects. We would each teach one English Second Language class among our 5 sections. My first assignment to each kid in the ESL class was to draw the flag of their old country on an index card and on a second card tell why their family came to America. I got a lot of responses, money, job, opportunity, reunite family. But one stands out. In 1993 a girl handed hers in . I went home that day and started going thru the bunch. I stopped when I came to hers. On one card was a gold flag with three horizontal red stripes. On the other card ws one word, FREEDOM. I actually began to cry. The girl was 12 years old. Saigon had fallen six years before she was born and she and her family still believed in us. Years later I told this to a friend at a HS reunion. He is a retired Admmiral in the USN who had two tours as a SEAL. He listened and as I finished I saw the tears in his eyes. He just said “ Thank you”. No one will say thank you to Joe Biden.