thats how Biden won his first election...his promise to cut all funding to Vietnam...i guess after 30 years of funding and 52,000 American lives lost, and the country was still that fragile, people here were just tired of it all. It was mostly a peasant society over there and it seemed they just didnt care one way or the other. Its still shocking how stupidly that war was fought...chasing em around in Asian jungles...
The South Vietnamese lost five times as many troops and many civilians; when you see them streaming onto helicopters and boats at the end, you realize how many of them cared - they just ran out of ammo.
I understand why Americans wouldn’t want US boots on the ground; Biden and company simply deserted an ally after our troops had been gone for two years.