Posted on 07/18/2005 7:57:49 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
I wish I could fight in Vietnam for the USA.
The military did a good job in Viet Nam. Especially good considering they had to do the job with one hand tied behind their back, thanks to micromanagement by LBJ and McNamara (don't get me started on that useless POS), turncoat traitor Attorney General Ramsey Clarke, and of course Walter Krankheit (german for sickness). The real beginning of "Hate America" media, where even though the US troops achieved military victory during the Tet Offensive, it wasn't reported as such by Krankheit and the MSM. It's a quagmire, our troops are getting slaughter, ad infinitum ad nauseum. Shortly after the Viet Nam War I was in Air Force ROTC at NJIT. My sister was a fully indoctrinated lefty in grade school, so I got the "blue meanie" and "how many babies did you burn" line at home.
Hanoi bided its time while its allies in Washington (Uncle Walt, a lawyer soon to be Senator of New York, and lefty politicians) worked on bringing down Nixon. Hanoi knew that if the NV regulars marched on Hanoi when Nixon was still in office, Nixon would have considered such an act as negating the treaties, and the skies over Hanoi and Haiphong would have been darkened by the B-52's.
As i told my son the other day, all the so-called progressive ideas of the 60's proved to be failures:
The hippie dippies / The feminist / Liberals of the 60's / Democrats / Anti - American's / the MSM
bump, bump bump.
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