I was just a wee lad when the Vietnam war was going on but it seems to me Richard Nixon basically hung the South Vietnamese out to dry.
I could be wrong about that.
No, the Democrat controlled Congress hung our ally, the Republic of Vietnam out to dry, cutting off all military aid in the face of a North Vietnamese multi-divisional combined arms offensive,refusing to honor the treaty commitments made by the United States in the Paris Peace Accords.
No, the Democrat controlled Congress hung our ally, the Republic of Vietnam out to dry, cutting off all military aid in the face of a North Vietnamese multi-divisional combined arms offensive,refusing to honor the treaty commitments made by the United States in the Paris Peace Accords.
“I was just a wee lad when the Vietnam war was going on but it seems to me Richard Nixon basically hung the South Vietnamese out to dry.”
That is what the popular media would have you believe. Nixon inherited a God-awful mess in VietNam. The Dems got us involved in that war, they escalated it, and then they didn’t have the guts to play to win.
The popular media would also have you believe that the Nazis were right wing (they were decidedly left-wing), and that racism is a solely a Republican characteristic (when most of the Southern racist politicians were Democrats).
Nope. You're wrong about that. The 'rat Congress hung them out to dry during the Ford administration, long after Nixon had retired to San Clemente.
Nixon invaded Cambodia (with somewhat dubious results) but he also bombed the North in Operation Linebacker and mined Haiphong harbor, both of which had a real impact on the North and brought them back to the bargaining table in Paris.
Nixon had no choice but to start to disengage, since the previous administration had already exhausted the patience of the American people. Remember the war had been going on for almost 8 years by the time Nixon came into office.