Are you not reading the full sentence? We were not the only ones fighting there. He made an error. He is speaking of South Vietnam. There was much fear, and still is, of the Red Chinese in SE Asia. We promised South Vietnam military aid and knew that without it, they were goners. Panzer divisions is figurative speech. You know full well he meant an onslaught and tens of thousands of deaths when the Communists purified the south. It was tantamount to a largescale human sacrifice, OURS and THEIRS, to the Cong who never should have been able to defeat US on any damb battlefield. It was one of the more shameful moments in America's history, and it was brought to you by....THE LEFT! And I am not excusing the politically afraid right either.They caved or NVN would have been bombed back to the stoneage.
Of course he made an error! That I spotted the glaring error is a tribute to my keen reading ability. Now in regard to the error and the figurative use of panzers which I haven't commented on yet but I will. If the author of the piece wishes it to be taken seriously he needs to be more careful in the editting and perhaps use a better figurative expression. There's no need to dress it up in colorful allusions to fictional panzer divisions when the truth is more than sufficiently damning as to the who and what supplied the NVK.