Vietnam: Democrats fault or republican's fault?
this is one area where I have to say it was a bipartisan fuck-up.
the Democrats actually started it when truman first gave money to the French in 1950 to take back their colony. Thats was a HUGE mistake and in complete violation of the Atlantic Charter
Eisenhower and Dulles took up the fight when the French lost it---that was a HUGE mistake. We put Diem into power and pretnded it was a democracy--that was also a huge mistake
Kennedy amped up the war and Johnson amped it up even further, another huge mistake. It was the LBJ administration that falsified the tonkin incident , using it as an excuse to ramp up the war even further, much like Bush took us into war on phony information from one psycho defector. ("Curveball")
Nixon continued the war and set up the tems of the exit that ultimately lost the war for the Vietnamese.
Ford was left to clean up the mess when Nixon left (hurriedly, in disgrace)
Neither party, can claim success, it was truly a bipartisan fuckup. But as usual, its one side thats pointing fingers at another.
Stay good
James
(Thanks Larry)
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