[Jeff Head]

Nixon, as a result of taking the fight to them and bombing them into the stone age, did make the North come crawling to the negotiating table. And in 1972 they singed a peace treaty with us that was very positive to our side and had them in effect losing the war.

We then began withdrawing, particularly after Nixon resigned. The libs had to get rid of Nixon...and they did. What he did pales in comparison to Clinton and the Obamanation...but he had to go.

After he left, the North built up and in 1974 violated the terms of the treaty they had signed with us and conducted a massive invasion of the south. Rather than build back up and fight this blatant violation and agression...we continued to leave because of the libs, dems, left, and MSM.

Hundreds of thousands of our friends were butchered, hundreds thousands more took to the sea in delapitated boats and rafts.

It led to the killing fields in Cambodia, and to a distrust of us throughout the world and by many of our allies that lasted until Reagen built us back up and then we used it to good effect in the 1st Gulf War. (With Granada and Panam in between).

Cronkite was a big part of all of that negative consequence.

[Paul R.]

Excellent analysis / history. What's amazing to me is that many of those friends, even though we abandoned them, still wanted to come here (at the risk of death), some made it, and with little but hope and hard work, most of the survivors did ok or better.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Well written, Jeff.

[Michael Eden]

Jeff,
Hadn’t logged in in quite a while. So this is very delayed.

When Cronkite turned America against the war (and essentially made considering the war “a lost cause” publicly acceptable), America transitioned from “winning” to “getting out.”

For all the ferocity of Nixon’s bombing, it was nevertheless done with the intent of getting the best deal at the negotiations as he could get.

It was ultimately the Democratic Party - and the left’s - opposition to the war that wore down public opinion.

Tragically, we abandoned “victory” just as it was literally within our sight.

Reagan defined victory rather well: “We win, they lose.”

Tragically, the days of “We win, they lose” seem to be gone from the American lexicon.