[frog in a pot]

And I wasn’t referring to some post-exit support or lack thereof - I was speaking about the ‘50s, when we should have been supporting Ho Chi Minh...

I recommend you go back and re your #5.

Your current argument is patently shameful in that you defend your conclusion by now introducing an irrelevant premise, that being a reference to the French defeat earlier in the '50s. That is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty.

[larrytown]

Your current argument is patently shameful in that you defend your conclusion by now introducing an irrelevant premise, that being a reference to the French defeat earlier in the '50s. That is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty.

Sorry dude - this reply makes no sense, at all. If someone cannot review and address the historical background of events, then how can any retrospective of those events be worthwhile?

That war was the result of a long chain of missteps and bad decisions, many by the United States. The final disgraceful actions by a power-drunk Democrat-led Congress in '75 was just the cherry on the top of the rotten milkshake.