[Bob J]

The reason we lost Viet Nam is because we had a spineless leadership that refused to commit to victory.

And why had they become spineless?

[evad]

And why had they become spineless?

Hmmm...might as well ask me why a squid is a squid.

I assume that spineless and democRAT liberal go hand in hand. They are simply incapable of doing the right thing, unlike some of the older day democrats.

I suppose you could also say that they became spineless because they were corrupt but being corrupt and spineless are not necessarily mutually inclusive.

[Askel5]

=== And why had they become spineless?

Probably too many mixed interests.

For example, there are the strategically inexplicable wartime actions of Kissinger and and his aide-de-camp Haig (of Nixon's Narcotics Council).

I find their ceasing overflights of Burmese poppy fields and the CIA's cranking of the Golden Triangle OUT of China perplexing to say the least. Something doesn't add up. For I suspect that the connection between drug profits and the Soviet/Chicom terror network (as launched fullforce from the 1967 Tri-Continental Conference in Havana) were understood from the get-go. Opium Wars being nothing particularly new on the face of the earth.

Just like ill-timed public apologies by the President, actions like these by those at the head of our agencies and critical task forces tend to muddy the waters and send the wrong messages to exactly the wrong people.