QUESTION: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?
"It was essential to our strategy.
Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9AM to follow the growth of the antiwar movement.
Those people represented the conscience of America.
The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor.
America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win."
~ Former North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, In an interview, "How North Vietnam Won the War," by Stephen Young, Wall Street Journal, Thursday, August 3, 1995.
THOSE WHO DON'T LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMING US TO REPEAT IT.
35 YEARS AGO THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT ENCOURAGED NORTH VIETNAM TO KEEP FIGHTING, KEEP KILLING OUR TROOPS AND KEEP HOLDING OUT FOR AN AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL.
TODAY THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS ENCOURAGING TERRORISTS TO KEEP FIGHTING AND KEEP KILLING OUR SOLDIERS AND KEEP HOLDING OUT FOR AN AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL.
It's Not Just A Gun...It's My "HOMELAND DEFENSE RIFLE"!!