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.
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.