Tigerhawk has the details.
I posted on this earlier. But I’ll say it again. Tet was not the end. South Vietnam didn’t fall until well after we left. After we defunded them and did nothing to stop the North from moving in. We began drawing down troop levels in ’72, left in’73 and didn’t provide as much air support as we promised in Paris. In 1974, a Democratic congress defunded our support entirely, overriding a veto to do so. In March 1975, North Vietnam – still funded and supported by the USSR – invaded and took over by April.
The Iraq-Vietnam comparison will ultimately be determined by whether we cut and run again, by whether the job is done when we do leave, not by what’s happening on the ground there now.
Note: When I posted the earlier thing, I got linked to by some leftist who insinuated that I meant we needed to bring back the draft. Sigh. I would have responded but I haven’t the time to teach him both history AND reading comprehension. Sad, really. I blame the schools.
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Iraq Isn't Vietnam…Yet
Think Tankers has more commentary on the whole Tet Offensive/Iraq thing the media/blogosphere has been talking about the last couple of days. Tet was not the end. South Vietnam didn’t fall until well after we left. After we defunded them and did …