A picture is worth a thousand words...
Posted on 01/29/2005 9:32:41 PM PST by Retain Mike
Edited on 01/29/2005 9:36:22 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
What did the North Vietnamese leadership think of the American antiwar movement? What was the purpose of the Tet Offensive? How could the U.S. have been more successful in fighting the Vietnam War? Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese army, answers these questions in the following excerpts from an interview conducted by Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human-rights activist. Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of North Vietnam's army, received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. He later became editor of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of Vietnam. He now lives in Paris, where he immigrated after becoming disillusioned with the fruits of Vietnamese communism.
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Some things haven't changed.
I blame Hanoi Jane and Hanoi John Kerry.
Same strategy here!! John Kerry is even visiting the countries that are supplying the terrorists with money and supplies!! Henry Waxman has jumped in and is making sure the Terrorists medical needs are taken care of. Joe and Teddy do all they can to tie the hands of the government in getting information from our enemies!! Hey what a Team of Great Americans we have in Congress!!
North Vietnam did not win the war. They held power through default because of the ilk of which you speak and the people that supported them.
A pretty good example of why the dims are the minority party these days. Not an accident.
Anyone know why the USA didn't use its full force against North Vietnam?
Part of it was geopolitical. Since the North Vietnamese were allied with China, it was feared that China would become more directly involved in the war if we were too aggressive.
Of course, the big reason was public opposition to the war. This was mainly media driven, although everyone I knew could name at least one friend or relative that had been killed or wounded in combat.
Nixon tried to get around public opinion and step up the war with the secret bombings in Cambodia. Of course, it didn't stay secret, and it really hit the fan when the media started reporting on it.
I often wonder how many American deaths Hanoi Jane is responsible for? I believe that it could number in the thousands!
Among MANY others - some larger, some smaller - The Berrigans, "Prof. Eugene Genovese", etc.
Names which should live in infamy.
The book "Dereliction of Duty" tells the ugly story.
I agree--and todays cantidates would be? Hanoi John Kerry
seems marginalized sunk by his own campaign salute-as it should have been.Perhaps todays equivalent could be Katie Couric,and Sean Penn- with massiv epolitical help from the
leftwing pols. Now-as then the beltway remains the Pentagons
greatest enemy.Then -as now -our enemy sees us more clearly than we see our own.
I suspect fear of Red China coupled with our overt dependence/co-operation with the damned Soviet Communist United Nations.(Vitory Denied:why your sons faces death in No win wars, by Archibald E.Robets,Major AUS(Ret.)1966 ,
Committee To Restore the Constitution publishers.
NV didn't win the war. The Liberals gave it away.
Gulag Vietnam - 30 years
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