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.
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.
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.
This POS knowingly left American POW’s to rot. I hope he rots in hell.
LBJ and McNamara had just a little bit to do with it, one always believed.
Throw Westmoreland in for mention if you want to.
Vietnam was going to be “lost” whenever we stopped backing the South Vietnamese government and military.
Similar to Afghanistan, but Vietnam lasted longer.
I will have sauerKRAUT on my hot dog to celebrate.