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Actually, LS, I remember how a more "mature" Senator TED KENNEDY fooled our U.S. Congress into cutting off all our funding for the South Vietnamese military to fight for their own Freeom with ...and then cut off all our humanitarin/medical aid to them as well in the 1970's.
This just as the Soviet Union gave $6 Billion in Military Aid to Communist North Vietnam for its 'Final Solution' in the South. Translating into over 600 Soviet Tanks and 1,000's of mobile artillery pieces coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Over 600 tanks was more tanks than Gen. Patton needed to win World War II with in Europe!
Sen. KENNEDY's picture being taken at our 1st Cavalry Division's Headquarters in South Vietnam's Central Highlands in 1965 shows how he just knew better than to do what he later did to the then Free South Vietnamese. For you see, he had been told directly just what the Vietnam War was really all about from the very start.
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You know, when people say, "You say in your book, 'we win wars,' but what about Vietnam and Korea? That's a loss and a tie." I say, "well, in one sense, yes, and it makes my point that we learn from our losses" and I go into the guts of my chapter 4, "Learning from Loss." Then, I say, "in another sense, were these really WARS or BATTLES within the COLD WAR? If that's the case, we didn't win the battles any more than we won Kasserine Pass, but we won the war because strategically we achieved our purpose, if tactically we temporarily redeployed."