Posted on 04/29/2015 6:31:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Could it be that two generations from now our grandchildren are going to be watching a documentary about the consequences of America’s retreat in the Middle East?
That’s the question I am pondering this week on the 40th anniversary of the communist conquest of Indochina.
The event is being marked by the broadcast on PBS of Rory Kennedy’s documentary “Last Days in Vietnam.”
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FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.
Walter Cronkite and his traitorous buddies lost the Vietnam war.
Every war America has fought since V-J Day, we pulled our punches, possibly excepting Gulf War I. Even there, we stopped our forces before taking Baghdad. If we aren’t going to fight to win, we might as well go back to Fortress America, and let the Islamic terrorists have their way in the Middle East, the Russians in Europe, and the Chinese in Asia.
>>Get your news from Walter Cronkite? The war was substantially won, despite LBJ’s mismanagement. Nixon had almost finished the job until Watergate gave the Dems a pretext to cut funding. The 1973 oil embargo and resulting sharp economic downturn presented a double whammy for Nixon.
You get your news from Party Headquarters? Yah, that nasty little Watergate affair. Just a damned shame those ex CIA clowns got caught, eh? Yer toilet backed up? I got a couple of guys you should call... The Republican Party USA creates most of their problems all by themselves by being the Step n’ Fetchit for Wall St.
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