America had a great military and of course smart people only the libs would try to slant that. What we didn’t have was leadership up the food chain. I have read books that claimed LBJ saw himself as some great military leader and he so wanted to be a hero he tried to micromanage the war from the oval office- with detailed maps trying to tell military leadership what to do next and how to do it.
Of course anyone like that is going to make sure they have people at the top of the military that agree with them or are at least willing to support their decisions 1000%. Those military leaders that really knew what was going on, those that were there in Vietnam, in the field with the soldiers were not listened to. The top of the food chain makes decisions those at the bottom have to deal with or die from or what have you.
In the beginning the Vietnam War had the support of the American people (we can all argue whether we should have been involved or timing or whatever) but as the war moved forward there was weakness from lack of/terrible leadership which gave an opening to the liberal protestors and of course they took that opening and ran with it.
I don’t blame the protestors for the outcome; I do blame them for their disrespect for this country and for their despicable treatment of our military. The truth is the liberals have always hated the military, they do now. With the complete lack of leadership then they could freely disrespect our military and get away with it. I hated them protesting when they were doing it, hate it now but they weren’t the main cause of the outcome, they just used that war to further their cause.
Don’t forget the role our wonderful media played either. Any success on our part was ignore or downplayed. Any weakness on our part was magnified out of proportion. Support or patriotism was ridiculed or downplayed and liberals protesting was supported. Most Americans trusted the media then, so it demoralized and eroded the support of many average Americans. The media started the body count game, further weakening resolve of support.
After all of this- the last time I looked in a school history text book, the Vietnam War had about one page and was referred to as “Nixon’s War” no mention of LBJ whatsoever. Great example of liberal history revision right there.
Liberals did all the same things they do now, we just didn’t realize it when it was happening then.