Vietnamization. This is correct. One of the arguments for not cutting and running was because we would be responsible for the massacres that would follow. The anti war movement had one means of getting out of what Johnson got us into and that was cut off funding amendments to every possible bill. And every single amendment was a hard fought legislative battle. After nixon got us out, Congress stopped funding vietnamization. When the south was over run, congress stopped funding what congress got us into. We left the south high and dry.
The Nixon administration advanced their credibility and status in a desperate ploy to stir up support at home for an unpopular conflict abroad;
Yeah, this type of quote from the article just doesn’t jive with reality. There may be some truths in it, but you can’t reach a solid conclusion when your foundation is that far off.
I should have said, congress HAD stopped funding the south. All those members who had withstood the stop funding amendments, turned on their own stated beliefs and wouldn't support what they created. I remember well the stories about no ammunition, no gas, broken equipment.
We didn't lose a battle but lost the war and left millions to be executed and re-educated. I was on my honeymoon when Saigon fell and watched the desperate evacuation, bawling my eyes out. It was perhaps the first chink in my theretofore assumption that the government was made up of honorable souls.
Vietnamization. This is correct. One of the arguments for not cutting and running was because we would be responsible for the massacres that would follow. The anti war movement had one means of getting out of what Johnson got us into and that was cut off funding amendments to every possible bill. And every single amendment was a hard fought legislative battle. After nixon got us out, Congress stopped funding vietnamization. When the south was over run, congress stopped funding what congress got us into. We left the south high and dry.
Yeah, this type of quote from the article just doesn’t jive with reality. There may be some truths in it, but you can’t reach a solid conclusion when your foundation is that far off.
I should have said, congress HAD stopped funding the south. All those members who had withstood the stop funding amendments, turned on their own stated beliefs and wouldn't support what they created. I remember well the stories about no ammunition, no gas, broken equipment.
We didn't lose a battle but lost the war and left millions to be executed and re-educated. I was on my honeymoon when Saigon fell and watched the desperate evacuation, bawling my eyes out. It was perhaps the first chink in my theretofore assumption that the government was made up of honorable souls.