Lord knows, the way we fought the war sucked. Frankly we should have just rolled our tanks right into downtown Hanoi and publicly hanged Ho Chi Minh, it would have been all over by 1964.
Vietnam showed the Soviet Union, that they were not going to take the rest of the world without a fight from us. Vietnam was a battle in a much larger war, a war we ultimately won, because of our fight there. The deaths were not in vain.
JFK was pulling out the 16,000 advisors. LBJ concocted the Tonkin Gulf "incident" but wouldn't commit before the election. After the election--November, 1965--he threw the Joint Chiefs out when they asked permission to mine Haiphong and bomb Hanoi. His target sanitation and micromanaging was costly--and he ultimately quit the office.
The Day It Became the Longest War By Lt. Gen. Charles Cooper, USMC (Ret.)
That was the month depicted in We Were Soldiers. American fighting men could have won militarily but were betrayed by the politicians and the leftist antiwar movement--John Kerry, Jane Fonda, et al.
Now that bunch runs the White House.
True, now. But they will become so if Obama is allowed to apologize and hand back our victory.
The encouraging thing about this story is that people in the know on the right, who have dutifully followed orders to cover this up for decades, are now fed up enough to leak the truth.
Their deaths *were* in vain, because the communist-stooge Roosevelt sucked off Stalin, allowing the Soviets to penetrate all levels of our government.
Because of that, Truman didn't nuke Stalin in '46.
And MacArthur wasn't allowed to follow up on the Coulter doctrine in Japan, even though in the aftermath of their defeat, they were open to Christianity.
If those two things had gone the other way, the course of history would have been far happier for billions.
"In all our wars with the Dark Tower, treachery has ever been our greatest foe."
NO cheers, unfortunately.