[Jeff Head]

America did not lose the war militarily. We fought and bombed the North to the negotiating table where a peace was struck that was very favorable to the South and the US. We then began withdrawing and for all intents and purposes, the war had been won.

Then, two years later, the North violated their own treaty and invaded.

We simple did not re-engage and continued a percipitous withdrawal.

It was a shameful display by our politicians. We lost politically as almost all of the enemy leaders wrote in their memoirs, even though they admitted to losing time and again, and abjectly, militarily on the battlefield.

It has taken us decades to overcome it and now we have a candidate who wants to repeat the same mistake again.

[shrinkermd]

Yes, I agree, but the conventional wisdom is we did lose the VietNam War. The MSM, colleges, universities and many others frequently refer to the war as lost, and I would guess that this has convinced the majority of the population of this view.

[ought-six]

Thw war was lost because the Democrat-controlled Congress cut off all funding for it and left our South Vietnamese allies hanging, all the while USSR and the ChiComs were bankrolling the NVA. The Democrat-controlled Congress also threatened to cut off funding for US operations if there was no end to US involvement by the end of 1972 (the “cease fire” was signed in January, 1973). I remember that very well, because I was in the US Air Force, in Air Force Intelligence (it was called the USAFSS back in those days). The Democrats castrated our military and were complicit in the slaughter of the South Vietnamese. I have hated Democrats since that time.