Wrap your brain around some facts….

“The Twisted Lessons of Vietnam”

Myth Number One is that the communist Tet Offensive of 1968 was a U.S. defeat. At the time, even reporters on the scene described the great damage that had been done to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. Analysts noted that the attack accomplished nothing, for the communists, in real terms.

After a few years, it was clear that Tet was a disaster for the Viet Cong. We know that because, after Tet, the United States implemented a counter insurgency plan that finished off the Viet Cong. By the time American troops left in 1972, the only threat to South Vietnam was invasion by the North Vietnamese army. That happened twice. First, in 1972, North Vietnamese tanks and infantry divisions crossed the border. With some U.S. air support, that invasion was thrown back. For almost three years South Vietnam was at peace.

Then the second invasion, in 1975, succeeded. The reason for that was not just a lack of any American air support, but the absence of U.S. support at all.

The U.S. Congress had cut off all military aid to South Vietnam. This included things like ammunition and spare parts.

By 1975, American troops had been gone for three years.

The pictures of American (Navy & CIA) helicopters evacuating people, showed American citizens and diplomats being taken out, along with South Vietnamese who could expect harsh treatment from the communists.

The U.S. didn’t lose the war in South Vietnam, the South Vietnamese did. Tet was a victory for the United States, and a major defeat for the Viet Cong. For years, you had to go dig up old newspapers, or obscure books, to find the evidence that Tet was an American victory and Vietnam was not an American defeat. But now you can just use Google. All the facts are there.

All you have to do is go look.

Many prefer not to, which is another problem.

I read a blog about an idiot who gave his last 2 years to the obama campaign and got a “purple” ticket so he could witness the inauguration. He missed the whole thing sitting in a tunnel, HAH. What a ironic foreshadowing for this poor ignorant soul.
He “served” (see ‘serfdom’) for 2 years hoping for some handout, and ended up in the trenches grasping for air with the masses. Welcome to socialism you idiot.