For younger freepers: the Democrats, led by FDR wannabe and scoundrel Lyndon “Stolen Valor” Johnson, ginned-up the Vietnam war.
Despite saying, “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” - Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democrats loved dishonest double-talk, even then.
Then ... they lost interest (”War is hard ... “) and bailed, started blaming Nixon and back-biting our troops & CICh until Congress cut funding.
Like Pepperidge Farms, those of us alive then—we remember. We Americans didn’t lose a major battle, starting with the Ia Drang valley in `65.
Our troops were the willing, led by the unknowing, and did the impossible for the ungrateful.
This is all on the `rats. They own the Vietnam debacle.
“Then ... they lost interest (”War is hard ... “) and bailed, started blaming Nixon and back-biting our troops & CICh until Congress cut funding.”
I WAS around and always heard Johnson and McNamara blamed,not Nixon.
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“We Americans didn’t lose a major battle, starting with the Ia Drang valley in `65.”
That was a major victory, but of course lots of our guys died, the obvious result of fighting any major battle.
I recall watching some of the original footage on youtube of it, and a reporter - Morely Safer - back at one of the bases with helicopters landing. He ended his report with something like “The only question now is how long will the American public put up with their brave young men returning home in body bags?”
I was dumbfounded - the first major battle! I could understand it a bit more if it was 1970 with all of the protests back home, the war dragging on, etc. But right at the start the press was against us!
CBS report below. It begins with Cronkite talking over video of caskets getting unloaded from an airplane. “This is the price of victory....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFTBfPYRZ9k