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2025-05-01 Southeast Asia

Fifty Years After Saigon: Remembering the Nobility of a Betrayed Cause

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Posted by Beavis 2025-05-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [164 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Congress fell into the hands of men more concerned with leftist politics than principle.

Where it essentially remains today.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-01 05:48|| 2025-05-01 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 That famous photo...the ultimate MAC flight.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-05-01 07:33|| 2025-05-01 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3
My father did 3 tours.
1 in civilian clothing and 2 more in uniform.
His last was Phu Bi (city of the dead).
His words to me at 16 were clear.
This war would be going when I turned 18th so get ready. So I spent the next summer vacation living in the Gracewood Ga./Spirit Creek Swamp.
Then they had a draw down.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-01 08:33|| 2025-05-01 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I was eight years old.
Clearly abused by reality during his formative years.

In '75 I was 5 years out of high school, ignored by the lottery, and confused by Johnson's escalation of Eisenhower's continuance of Truman's containment strategy, as I remain.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-01 10:22|| 2025-05-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Pol Pot was of course truly evil. IIRC, it was the Vietnamese communists who finally got rid of him. But are we all entirely certain that the CIA had nothing to do with Prince Sihanouk's ouster?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-05-01 11:03|| 2025-05-01 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 My older brother survived a year in the Riverboats in 'Nam and asked me "Why?" My only answer was:

That it may very well have deterred a Soviet ground invasion of West Europe because "If the US is crazy enough to waste so much treasure and soldier's lives in a worthless sideshow like Vietnam then they could very well be crazy enough to go 'Global Thermonuclear War' over Europe ...and the the old grey headed apparatchiks in Moscow just didn't want to risk mutual annihilation".

Posted by magpie 2025-05-01 14:55|| 2025-05-01 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 All of these regimes were doomed by their ownactions.
If they could have maybe, you know, treated the peasants better and gave them a fair share of the wealth they created, maybe they wouldn't have joined the commies.
But no, huge landowners had to have more, more and even more.
So we had to step in and make war on farmers with apalm and toxic herbicides instead of just giving them a fair shake.
Too unrealistic, would never work.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-05-01 15:59|| 2025-05-01 15:59|| Front Page Top

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