Posted on 05/23/2023 11:42:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Henry Kissinger turns 100 on May 27. How should he be remembered?
For me, he is the American who, more than any other individual, lost the Vietnam War.
But today Kissinger is a demigod among our foreign policy elite. National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Kissinger ranks in the top echelon of notable Americans. On issues like the war in Ukraine and even artificial intelligence, our elite wants to know: "What does Henry recommend?"
Kissinger's rise to eminence began with his secret negotiation of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement ostensibly ending the Vietnam War with peace and freedom for the people of South Vietnam.
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Substitute ‘Afghanistan’ for ‘South Vietnam’ and we see the democratic tradition continue...
‘We had learned from the Brits in Singapore and the French how to actually wage a counter insurgency but nobody had the stomach for it.’
The Malayan campaign was brilliant. Shame it isn’t read by anyone in the US Army...not diverse enough.
Vietnam was going to be “lost” whenever we stopped backing the South Vietnamese government and military.
Similar to Afghanistan, but Vietnam lasted longer.
The Malayan Communists were mostly ethnic Chinese and didn’t have the support of the rest of the population.
And did it accomplish that? The answer is NO. Waste of the lives of 50K plus fine young men, IMO.
Ok comrade. You reinforced your red bona fides.
Me? A commie? Sure pal, whatever you say
I will have sauerKRAUT on my hot dog to celebrate.
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