Posted on 05/23/2023 11:42:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Yes, that is correct.
Alternate history being written.
I’ll never understand why the Paris Peace Talks drug on for years, then we got nothing. I always believed we should have leveled the port facilities at Haiphong and mined the harbor, then seriously blockaded North Vietnam. That, or leave before 55,000 of us were killed.
Afghanistan is the latest leftist unnecessary surrender.
“I thought Cronkite declared the war “lost” all by himself after Tet.”
There was some famous reporter that was in Vietnam right after the first battle (Ia Drang Valley), with the choppers landing behind him with the troops off loading and he said something like “While the battle was a victory, it remains to be seen how long the mothers and wives of the killed and wounded young men will endure their boys fighting in this foreign land.”
Ok comrade.
Only the good die young, so it’s no surprise that Kissinger is still alive.
As for why don’t they blame Nixon? They shouldn’t even blame Kissinger. The Democrats lost Vietnam and Nixon was left with the mess of cleaning up their stupidity and ignorance.
As for foreign policy, Kissinger was a lightweight when it came to diplomacy. Thankfully Nixon was the brains behind Nixon’s foreign policy, not Kissinger. Nixon bridged the enormous gap between China and the United States and started the first strategic arms negotiations that eventually led to the fall of the Soviet Union. Kissinger was a fool who stood in when needed for photo-ops.
You didn’t read the article, did you?
Johnson, McNamara, and Congress lost that war.
Johnson tried to micromanage the war from the Oval Office,
and when Nixon came in every time he made an advance toward
victory, Congress would demand a ceasefire to negotiate
peace talks. At that point the North would resupply and
get ready for the next round of attacks.
Between the those three entities, it probably cost us
40,000 of the lives we lost.
I was one of 550,000 Americans in uniform in Vietname in 66-67. LBJ & Whiz Kids had the same philosophy on Vietnam as the war on Poverty.... Throw enough money at it and you are bound to win.
I am no fan of Nixon or Kissinger... Voted for Libertarian Dick Gregory in 68, LP in 72. But Kissinger and Nixon cannot be blamed for Vietnam. They can be blamed for China.
If you voted for Dick Gregory and his Freedom and Peace Party in 1968 and then LP party in 72, you were radically far left.
This POS knowingly left American POW’s to rot. I hope he rots in hell.
The only thing wrong with the Domino Theory is that except for Laos and Cambodia, the dominoes didn't fall in Southeast Asia, but elsewhere. Within a year of the fall of Saigon, Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau went Communist, as did Grenada and Nicaragua in 1979. In 1983, Surinam entered the Soviet bloc for a short sojourn--the high tide of Soviet imperialism--before things started to go sour for the Evil Empire.
Abolishing most Alphabet Agencies is extremist?
The argument on the dominoes is how much had been altered and changed from 1950 to 1975 in the world/Communist situation in Asia.
Well, it was your platform.
“By 1968 the group gained national recognition and dedicated their efforts towards achieving their platforms of a socialist, democratic, feminist, and racially equal society. They organized mass groups and rallies to protest and support political candidates to reform US political institutions. They formed Tenant unions for renters. They organized food co-ops, free health clinics and newsletters for the public and their followers.”
LBJ and McNamara had just a little bit to do with it, one always believed.
Throw Westmoreland in for mention if you want to.
He was the mentor of Klaus Schwab.
You seriously think it was a good decision to go into either place? You seriously think it was worth the loss of life?
Yes, and JFK and Harriman arranged the murder of the Catholic Diem brothers. The US did that. and 16K troops
Good idea to stop communism, yes.
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