I hope he is fully vaccinated.
There wouldn’t have been a viet nam war..if not for LBJ’s lie.
I hope he got 50 boosters. But few of them got the jabs at all.
The headline is 100% inaccurate.
There is exactly one group responsible for the loss of Vietnam and that was the leftist democrats who took control of Congress and refused any aid to South Vietnam after Nixon was removed from office.
Nixon had bombed and mined the North Vietnamese into submission he had a peace agreement which guaranteed South Vietnam’s security.
After Nixon resigned, Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam even though the North launched a full scale tank assault in violation of the peace agreement.
President Ford went on television pleading for Congress to provide equipment to the South Vietnamese.
Their refusal also led to the murder of millions in Cambodia and to hundreds of thousands of boat people fleeing South East Asia. Many more were placed in Communist concentration camps.
America could desperately use its deep water naval port at Cam Ranh Bay against the Chinese, but the short sightedness of leftists and defeatists denied us that, as well as denying our allies freedom.
Read my last post except for falling to Watergate Nixon did absolutely nothing to lose Vietnam.
Ironically after having “lost it,” Vietnam is now closer, and its population more favorable, to the USA than at any time in the last 80 years
I’m convinced that America’s DC central-planners and globalist interventionists have NO CLUE what the long-term consequences of their decisions will be.
vietnam
was lost to the marxist hordes
just like America
they prefer fascist communism
Intervening in someone else's civil war, especially on the Asian continent, is never easy or clean. Korea is still a war zone 70 years on. But one as much a cluster **** by McNamara and his boss? All but ruined a generation and an entire decade. We're still paying the price for its empowerment of the American Left.
Give Walter Cronkite his share of the credit
He is the worst. And that the “experts” still revere him is a big problem.
His policies and strategies failed except to have made him more money via Chicom representation than he’d ever been able to even dream of as a well paid Ivy League professor or cabinet secretary.
The seed was planted by Eisenhower. A half million French casualties should have given us a clue.
I think Walter Cronkite had more to do with it than Kissinger.
Kissinger didn’t “lose” Vietnam, the Rat Congress did.
Kissinger and Nixon did support the Pakistani genocide against Bangladesh, the most shameful episode in American foreign policy in my lifetime. So I would say that Henry is a thoroughly amoral man who I do not respect.
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I don’t wish death on people.
Henry Kissinger is one of those that come very close to the edge.
What he lost was Taiwan.
I remember McNamara did his share.
Johnson, McNamara, Nixon, and Kissinger all agreed that the war was in winnable. A waste of time and life defending a corrupt puppet regime with the help of the incompetent ARVN.
We never shut down the harbor, never destroyed Hanoi, never flooded their fields..... but the geniuses from the Ivy League and the McNamara number crunchers just KNEW how to fight a war.... it's all numbers doncha know... f'ing pathetic.
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.
I'm just saving a bottle of my best Macallan single malt whisky.. for Jane Fonda's attempt to hold her breath for eternity and assuming room temperature. I raise a glass to my father who served near Da Nang and was wounded in Chu Li.
I believe that quagmire was started under the previous administration.