We won the Vietnam war. Our Prisoners were all released. The Communists signed a peace treaty . we came home . Democrats then cut off the money and supplies to South Vietnam. The South had no bullets ,bombs, planes ,tanks ( that ran) and the North invaded in violation of the treaty and we had less that 5000 remaining American, all in Saigon when Vietnam failed because the Democrats did not want that victory and stopped funding the self defense of the South. Absolutely true.
The South lost the war. Period.
Obama visited Communist Vietnam this week most likely to thank the Communists for making it possible for him to be elected President of the United states. For you see, without the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive, Obama would still be a Community Organizer and hanging out in Chicago bath houses, but the “Butterfly Effect” of the 1968 Tet Offensive made it possible for Barack Hussein Obama, a homosexual Muslim Communist, to be elected to the highest office in the land.
During the Vietnam War, the 1968 Tet Offensive resulted in the annihilation of Viet Cong units throughout South Vietnam and was a disaster for the Communist insurgency; it never recovered from its loses. This Tet Offensive was a coordinated “Do or Die” attack by every Viet Cong unit in South Vietnam on the night of January 30 and the morning of January 31, 1968 that simultaneously struck every South Vietnamese City, village, and military installation in an attempt to win the war in one country wide attack; they failed and they paid the price for their failure; they died.
The war was carried on after Tet 1968 by invading North Vietnamese, and North Vietnam could never move sufficient troops down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to ever hope to defeat the United States effort in South Vietnam, so they resorted to another Communist tactic; they lied.
1968 was a Presidential Election year in the United States, and the Communist Party USA attempted to use the Tet Offensive to influence the election by claiming it was a Communist victory and the war was lost. This American Communist Party organized an anti-war movement and assembled enough strength through this movement to seize control of the Democrat Party that summer during the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago.
These Communists attempted to nominate a Presidential candidate who would end the war and they failed, but the Communist Party USA still retained control of the Democrat Party, and this Party managed to elect enough Leftists to Congress to cut funding for the Vietnam War and the war was then lost, so in this way the 1968 Tet Offensive was indeed a Communist victory.
After using the Tet Offensive to gain control of the Democrat Party, the Communist Party USA never lost control of the Democrat Party, and when a few decades later they managed to elect an avowed Marxist Communist, Barack Hussein Obama, to the Presidency of the United States, it made the 1968 Tet Offensive the greatest Communist victory of all times.
Actually, the North invaded South Vietnam with more tanks, more modern tanks, and with tanks almost 4x the size of Germany’s tank army that conquered Belgium, Denmark and France in less time with fewer casualties.
The south had plenty of hardware. They also had an army that wouldn’t fight to defend its homeland. Sort of like what happened with Iraq. And the South Vietnamese air force had enough planes and ordinance to take out the runways at Tan Son Nhut and prevent the base from being used for evacuations.
Unfortunately a lot of that’s not true. The Peace Treaty left an entire NVA field army within the borders of South Vietnam. We did not destroy Hanoi’s ability to wage war. LBJ and McNamara knowingly were engaged in a no-win policy beginning shortly after the election of 1964. Nixon’s policy was to extricate American combat troops from the war, not to defeat Hanoi.
Get yourself a copy of HR McMaster’s ‘Dereliction of Duty’, the whole sad chronology going back to JFKs unwise decisions is spelled out in detail.
You may recall that it was Ted “lion of the Senate” Kennedy that led the opposition to funding the South Vietnamese.
We could have won the Vietnam war but the generals were not allowed to do what's necessary to win. Not sure I would classify it as a win. More like a stalemate / draw.
Now we won the Iraq war. But the aftermath ...not so much (sarcasm).