Posted on 09/22/2017 4:42:51 AM PDT by DFG
The Vietnam War, the ten-part, 18-hour documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is running on PBS. Thursday’s episode 5 showed the conflict on the brink of the Tet Offensive in 1968. Future episodes will deal with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973, which paved the way for the victory of the Soviet-backed North Vietnamese Communists in 1975. One California state senator has considerable experience on that front.
The Communists changed the name of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City and Janet Nguyen was born there in 1976. Her father was a South Vietnamese soldier and imprisoned when the family tried to escape. The Communists assassinated her uncle, a South Vietnamese Army officer, in front of his village and family.
The Nguyen family became part of the “boat people” exodus and made their way to Thailand. California governor Jerry Brown spearheaded an effort by high-profile Democrats to keep the refugees – even orphans – out of the United States.
Brown tried to block flights of refugees into Travis Air Force Base and said it was “a little strange” to bring in refugees when one million Californians were out of work. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman of New York likewise pitted the refugees against her constituents. Rep Don Riegle of Michigan sought to bar funds for the refugees. Rep. Joshua Eilberg of Pennsylvania, chairman of a subcommittee on immigration, accused the Ford administration of acting “with unnecessary haste” in evacuation of the orphans.
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Good points All,
I might add that some refugees kept
Their communist beliefs as they
joined the boat people coming to
America.
Like the Cuban refugees are mostly republican and CA. Tell you the horrors of communism. Unfortunately their children went to our public schools and that generation is turning democrat.
Like the Cuban refugees are mostly republican and CA. Tell you the horrors of communism. Unfortunately their children went to our public schools and that generation is turning democrat.
“Future episodes will deal with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973, which paved the way for the victory of the Soviet-backed North Vietnamese Communists in 1975.”
WRONG!
It was the Dems refusing to fulfill our promise to continue to arm the South.
When he asked the best way to accommodate the influx he was told “full English immersion”, by the very advisors who refused to do the same for Hispanics.
Althought the US media (particularly Walter Crankcase) portrayed it as a defeat for the US, the ‘68 Tet offensive was a major disaster for the NVA. Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev convened a Politburo meeting for the unstated purpose of finding a patsy to blame for the failure. During this meeting, KGB Director (and future Premier) Yuri Andropov stood up and told the assembly (words to the effect that) “We don’t have to win the war in Vietnam because we’re winning the war on the American college campus.”
RE: The Burns documentary (with Peter Coyote as narrator, no less), I watched the first episode, fully expecting to switch it off after 10 minutes in disgust with all the Anti-American and anti-conservative propaganda. To my shock and surprise, he pretty much drove the ball straight down the middle of the fairway. So I kept watching. Thus far I’ve seen the first three episodes and the people who’ve received the roughest treatment all were Democrats. He’s pretty much roasts JFK and LBJ on a spit for their roles. And of the five presidents featured in those first three episodes, even Harry Truman got harsher treatment than Eisenhower. Ike, in fact, comes out looking pretty good for noting in his personal journals “...[T]hat no military victory is possible in this theater,” and refusing to act unilaterally (after the Brits refused to contribute) to aid the French when they took a shellacking at Dien Ben Phu in ‘54.
“Althought the US media (particularly Walter Crankcase) portrayed it as a defeat for the US, the ‘68 Tet offensive was a major disaster for the NVA.”
Any serious scholar of the TET offensive would come to the exact same conclusion.
ping
Political cynicism.
Brown knew that those who’d fled communism would be more conservative in their politics once allowed to thrive in relative freedom.
After all, he’d had lots of indoctrination being a commie himself.
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