Holy smokes! Check this out, and the source!
Porcine aviation, and all that!
People seem to forget that, according to the Pentagon Papers as published in the New York Times, John F. Kennedy ordered the assassination of our ally Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam.
He had been a pretty good job of holding the country together and pursuing the war effort. After he was assassinated on JFK's orders it took years to get the Vietnamese government back to where it could take on some of the military burden again.
That information was buried in the middle of the Pentagon Papers, perhaps the single most significant revelation in them. But the Times never singled it out for comment, instead using the release of the papers as another tool to bash President Nixon. The Pentagon Papers didn't actually reveal anything negative against Nixon, only against JFK and LBJ. It was typical lying liberal spin.
considering our previous exchange fm this morning; the above article is stunning - can't believe the slimes printed it.
Teddy Kennedy, burn in hell. Mary Jo was just one of the millions you abandoned.
After 35 years of incompetence, the NYT ...........ping.
just in case you didn't see this ping...
so now the left is admitting they were wrong and are just saying "oops, we appologize for the inconvenience"?
All Hail ... Oh Conquering Russian Hero!
In my view, a direct line can be drawn between the US pullout of Vietnam and 9/11. Once small-time despots and the like realized that you didn't need a big military force to defeat the major powers - you just needed to cause enough discomfort to get people to leave, I think you see the beginnings of the modern terrorist movement.
CNN and NPR celebrated our defeat all weekend.
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The Vietnamese Communists owe thanks to the media, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Jane Fonda and so on. And to the Clintons, too: even though they weren't known then, they were leftist activists.
Something Kerry urged during his testimony before Congress. Kerry also predicted only a few thousand would be affected by a Communist takeover.
Bump.
The Vietnam War turned into a political football under Johnson and McNamarra. They had no intention of 'winning' it; rather, they used it for political positioning. And when that backfired and resulted in an even worsening quagmire, Johnson chose not to run for reelection.
Johnson helped created a worsening problem and, partly at his choice and partly due to the shifting mood of the general public, chose to leave office and leave the problem to the next administration.
We had good reason to fear the USSR and China. 60 million died under Stalin and Mao. More than WWII.
Of course, you would never hear Jane Fonda or the lefties admit that. Communism is good, you know.
Why go in the first place? Whatever a win would have looked like, it wouldn’t be worth the loss of all those fine young men. Not only dead, but those wounded and scarred for life.