Posted on 05/23/2023 11:42:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Henry Kissinger turns 100 on May 27. How should he be remembered?
For me, he is the American who, more than any other individual, lost the Vietnam War.
But today Kissinger is a demigod among our foreign policy elite. National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Kissinger ranks in the top echelon of notable Americans. On issues like the war in Ukraine and even artificial intelligence, our elite wants to know: "What does Henry recommend?"
Kissinger's rise to eminence began with his secret negotiation of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement ostensibly ending the Vietnam War with peace and freedom for the people of South Vietnam.
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I hope he is fully vaccinated.
There wouldn’t have been a viet nam war..if not for LBJ’s lie.
I hope he got 50 boosters. But few of them got the jabs at all.
The headline is 100% inaccurate.
There is exactly one group responsible for the loss of Vietnam and that was the leftist democrats who took control of Congress and refused any aid to South Vietnam after Nixon was removed from office.
Nixon had bombed and mined the North Vietnamese into submission he had a peace agreement which guaranteed South Vietnam’s security.
After Nixon resigned, Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam even though the North launched a full scale tank assault in violation of the peace agreement.
President Ford went on television pleading for Congress to provide equipment to the South Vietnamese.
Their refusal also led to the murder of millions in Cambodia and to hundreds of thousands of boat people fleeing South East Asia. Many more were placed in Communist concentration camps.
America could desperately use its deep water naval port at Cam Ranh Bay against the Chinese, but the short sightedness of leftists and defeatists denied us that, as well as denying our allies freedom.
Read my last post except for falling to Watergate Nixon did absolutely nothing to lose Vietnam.
You spelled it out perfectly. Thanks from a VN combat vet.
Boy that sobering. Good re-cap.
Ironically after having “lost it,” Vietnam is now closer, and its population more favorable, to the USA than at any time in the last 80 years
I’m convinced that America’s DC central-planners and globalist interventionists have NO CLUE what the long-term consequences of their decisions will be.
Kissinger ranks right along side McNamara, Walter Cronkite
and LBJ. Spit!
Yeah, McNamara ordered the ROE’s, rules of engagement to be put in place.
Dittos! Kissinger has always been a deep state globalist. At age 100, he's likely to become an "eternalist" any day. I hope, for his sake, he chose wisely, though I doubt it since globalists choose to think relatively short term.
Excellent post.
Excellent post. Five Star.
The Vietnam war was started & lost by the Washington war machine. A fully owned subsidiary of the Democrats & the Neocons.
I do not think Nixon nor Henry Kissinger was a member of either.
vietnam
was lost to the marxist hordes
just like America
they prefer fascist communism
Intervening in someone else's civil war, especially on the Asian continent, is never easy or clean. Korea is still a war zone 70 years on. But one as much a cluster **** by McNamara and his boss? All but ruined a generation and an entire decade. We're still paying the price for its empowerment of the American Left.
Give Walter Cronkite his share of the credit
He is the worst. And that the “experts” still revere him is a big problem.
His policies and strategies failed except to have made him more money via Chicom representation than he’d ever been able to even dream of as a well paid Ivy League professor or cabinet secretary.
The seed was planted by Eisenhower. A half million French casualties should have given us a clue.
Truman put advisors there in 1950 and until JFK they were no problem, it was JFK who moved in 16,000 troops and got deeply involved.
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