The Armed Forces of the United States never lost a ground engagement in Vietnam. The war, in my judgment, was lost by lack of support by Congress, led by the liberal news media.
It should also be noted that both the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats. They got us into the war and disgracefully ended it.
>The war, in my judgment, was lost by lack of support by Congress, led by the liberal news media.
Thank you Walter Cronkite, you idiot Communist you.
> The war, in my judgment, was lost by lack of support by Congress, led by the liberal news media. <
Very true. But I think there’s another component. A major justification for our involvement was the “domino effect”. If we don’t stop the Communists in Vietnam, communism will invariably spread to neighboring countries. I’m old enough to remember those days. There was even some suggestion that Australia might fall.
This is far different from how we got involved in WW2. Back in 1941 every citizen knew the danger. But the “domino effect” argument was weak, based on maybes.
It’s hard for a democracy to conduct a long war when a good percentage of the population doubts the reason for it.
No doubt of it; one of the “wins” of Watergate for the left was the chance to defund South Vietnam; from the same damned group of people (LBJ, McNamara, Teddy Kennedy, etc.) who started it and botched it. You had a President in Nixon who had the highest ratings in history, coming off the biggest presidential win, and the FBI Deputy Director, probably along with the CIA, acted as Deep Throat to screw him out of office and ensure that the war was lost. Things don’t change much, do they?