I could see someone feeling that soldiers who went to Vietnam got suckered (past tense).
Because the politicians didn’t intend to win it.
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My thoughts exactly. I think IF (and that’s a big IF) he said something like this, it is because he hates war, especially an unnecessary war, and might feel that these soldiers got suckered into going. That is not a disparaging comment to the military, it a disparaging comment toward our government who decided to go into a way they couldn’t win.
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“That is not a disparaging comment to the military, it a disparaging comment toward our government who decided to go into a way they couldn’t win.”
I think you have fallen for the left’s narrative of the Vietnam war. It was militarily won. The North was on their knees and gave way to a peace accord that supposedly ended the war. The troops then went through a draw down phase.
The South Vietnamese were stabbed in the back by not being supported. As a result, the North invaded and the South lacked materials (such as bullets and gasoline) to fight them off. I recall reports that the South’s tanks ran out of fuel defending Saigon.
This war was won twice. First by the military. Second by the Democrats that defunded the South. By defunding the south they won the war for their communist allies.
Because the left got by with so much in the 60’s & 70’s, we have what we have today. Commies on our own soil.
Even if it is true, It would not bother me in the least because it was a stupid war.