“Then 35 years of brutal communist rule, that made the War seem like a picnic.”
Yep. Our military could win that war if not for the polidiots in Washington. We won battle after battle but were never allowed to go in for the kill: Invade North Vietnam and halt all traffic and supplies coming in from China and Russia. We left before the fall of Saigon, several years before, and we left the South Vietnamese high and dry after promising we would supply them.
The killing from 1975 onward by the Communists from the north was horrific, yet, we didn’t lift a finger.
Let’s not forget, Vietnam was a war fought by a Democrat, LBJ. Even JFK had second thoughts about it before he was killed.
As a kid during the Vietnam war I wonder why we didnt just level every inch of North Vietnam. And then Napalm what was left standing.