For what?
Here’s the “what”: Korea to an extent, and Vietnam to the extreme, taught EVERYONE who was paying any attention at all that going to war is either an all-or-nothing commitment, or an unqualified disaster. You DO IT, or you DON’T. There can be NO half measures.
Our failure to COMMIT in Asia, and the resultant stupidity of sending guys in there anyway — those events taught every politically astute person of any intellectual capacity worth noting that NOBODY ought to EVER lend the left an ear when armed conflict is on the table. Or anything else, for that matter, but certainly when war is in the balance.
Hell, we’d have mopped up in BOTH of those places had we just got solid commitment to get in, get DONE, and get out. Top brass in North Vietnam admitted years afterward that the Tet Offensive was their last hurrah. Had we stuck in there after that assault we’d have broken their back; they had nothing left to throw at us after that. But, NOOOooooo, we had a steaming pantload of handwringing domestic leftist pukes we thought we had to listen to and appease. And we did. And we left. And we lost; allowing our own cabal of aggrieved leftists to make the call to throw victory into the jaws of defeat.
Stupid. STUPID. STUPID! *STUPID*!!!
But for the American political left, we’d have STAYED in Vietnam past Tet, we’d have discovered then what we only learned many moons afterward; we’d have succeeded instead of failing, and the lives we lost over there would have been worth losing, because we’d have WON, and a whole nation of people would be FREE, today.
BUT FOR THE DAMNABLE AMERICAN LEFT...
...AND those on the right who listened to them.
Fear not, though. Fear not.
EVERYONE responsible WILL get their due; their just reward awaits. There IS an eternal flaming Hell, and EVERY corner of it is PLENTY hot enough.
Good post.
+1
Exactly right. Try was the moment Westy was waiting for in which the Communists came out and were annihilated by the superiority in firepower.
Of course the optics of it looked horrible due to the bs pandering LBJ did about the war effort. Westy wanted to chase after them in Laos and kill them off once and for all, but politics prevented it.
Of course all of the battlefield victories were mooted by the Communist take over of academia.
yeah baby..... yeah...
And that cabal of leftists are still here, still subverting the country, and making Kruschev’s boast come true.
“...get their due...”
Not nearly soon enough, my friend. Not nearly soon enough.
It’s one of those things I’d rather see... so I know there IS some justice in the world.
BUMP.
‘Cuz The Truth is well worth repeating.