[aruanan]

The combination of Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara insured that the war was fought badly, ineffectively, and at great expense to the GIs sent to fight it.

And then, after the war had shifted to more or less conventional warfare and was won and the South Vietnamese were promised continued U.S. support, Democrats used the cover of Watergate to screw them all over, leading to the current situation. As my Vietnamese friends said to my question about when things got bad, 'When the Americans left.' This was a family whose father had fled the north in the 1950s as a child and had built a new life in the south. His children had to flee the south with him and his wife and come here where they've blessed the U.S. with children who have become highly educated professionals in the scientific, medical, and financial fields, rejecting the blandishments of the welfare state, preferring to do it all on their own, only, once again, to have their lives screwed with by a Marxist.

[dfwgator]

And it coincided with Cambodia falling to the Khmer Rouge....the blood of 2 million Cambodians is on the hands of all of the so-called “anti-war” activists.

[Pelham]

“And then, after the war had shifted to more or less conventional warfare and was won and the South Vietnamese were promised continued U.S. support, Democrats used the cover of Watergate to screw them all over, leading to the current situation. “

Yes, you’re quite right.

By 1972 the majority of US combat troops had left South Vietnam, and the ARVN had been trained well enough to take over the fighting.

But they had been trained to fight like we do, meaning a lot of firepower.

When the 1974 ‘Watergate’ Congress took over the Democratic majority was for the first time dominated by the hard Left and they cut off all aid to South Vietnam. No ammunition, no gasoline, no American air support.

It didn’t take Communist General Giap long to size up his opportunity; hell, be probably got a green light from some of the traitors in American politics letting him know that South Vietnam was going to be betrayed.

So Giap didn’t bother with insurgency. He simply mounted a full scale armored invasion of the South. There was a traffic jam on Highway 1 from all the equipment heading South.

Some American military begged President Ford to let them bomb the highway. The North’s invasion force would have been sitting ducks. It would have been a Highway of Death and the entire invasion could have been wiped out.

But no. Ford wouldn’t go along. So two years after American combat troops left Saigon fell. And it could have been saved at little cost. The Watergate Congress has a lot of blood on its hands, but it never has had to take the blame.