Let me get this right. You are excusing the South Vietnamese FAILURE to launch an insurgency after 1975 on the grounds that the poor babies felt “abandoned” by the U.S. Thank God, the Americans who rebelled in 1775 at Lexington and Concord or the Afghans who took on the Soviets in 1979 didn’t have that attitude.
Read the book you ‘academic”....The S vietnamese were promised weapons,etc to continue holding off the commies...Congress cut them off. We left, turned off the lights, closed the door.
Same as it would be if we had just LEFT Iraq, promised the Iraqi govt we would supply them at least money and wepons and materials to continue keeping the bad guys and the Iranians at bay ...and then not followed through. “Poor Babies”??? Obviously you still won’t take the time to study what happened. so what’s the point of discussing it with you....Your types are the Ron Pauls of Today. Or the Murthas, Kerry’s and Bidens...CUT AND RUN!