If he said the Vietnam War was unwinnable in 1971, he was full of baloney. Together with the South Vietnamese, we won the war a year and a half later. But then we walked away and left the South Vietnamese to their fate.
Agreed. And “most” of the officers I served under were first rate.
We lost Viet Nam due to Walter Krankheit.
When I read that he said the war was unwinnable I couldn’t believe this guy was being portrayed as a hero. None of the vets here on FR or that I have read about have said anything of the sort. Was he a political butt kisser?
Petraeus is advising his former boss on ISIS along with the infiltration of the Muslim brohood, so we know why that is going so well.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3257511/posts
And from the article I am going to conclude that fear is what is what is keeping the brass in line. What from? Psy-ops. The same the communist Viet Cong used against the boots and the same way the Russian communists stay in power.
“The Army’s senior leaders are AWOL. They are in hiding, for they know all too well that the Army is the victim of a vast cultural revolution; a purge, not from inside, but from outside forces, who are determined to reshape the Army, even if they have to destroy it....” Any utterance, any sound, any comment that is not marching in lockstep with the New Order is met with banishment, forced resignation or both.”
So. Not only do the boots have to fear the rising rape stats, the rising suicide rates, the hog-tying rules of engagement, if they want to make it a career, they have to face the betrayal of the politician that rules them. Then let’s talk retirement or going inactive and the VA. The VA is defended by the DOJ and oversight investigated by the Office of the Inspector General. All who work for the same people who rule the military. We all know the fear within the ranks of the VA employees who want to defend the vets but face retaliation.
After re-reading it hit me that instead of the KGB, many departments have been given power to hide the unconstitutional abuse of that power.
I can’t say the military or the government or the churches or the schools are any different than our society. The Biblical principles upon which our culture was founded are no longer viewed as the truth. The thing is, those principles had conditions attached and the consequences of not following them are what we see happening today.
How old are you?
Not meaning to argue that is very inaccurate
“If he said the Vietnam War was unwinnable in 1971, he was full of baloney. Together with the South Vietnamese, we won the war a year and a half later”
We stopped the 1972 Easter Offensive but that was not winning the war.
Nixon and Kissinger negotiated a peace treaty that left a full NVA army intact inside of South Vietnam. North Vietnam wasn’t defeated, their cities were intact, their armies were whole. They simply needed to rebuild what they had lost in 1972 and wait the chance to try again.
The 1974-75 Democrat Watergate Congress gave North Vietnam that chance by cutting off all gasoline and ammunition to South Vietnam and by prohibiting President Ford from coming to their defense. The rest is history.
If we had truly won the war at some point then North Vietnam would not have been able to sit back and wait for the opportunity to overrun the South. Hanoi would have been rubble, their army destroyed, their government our prisoners. None of that happened, and other than Goldwater in 1964 no one seemed to have ever called for anything like it.