What happened in the Vietnam Era, as we tend to call it, was we were asked by an ally to help them repel an invasion by their northern neighbor, North Vietnam, which had been conquered by the Communists in the 50’s, with the usual purges, gulags, and Commissars put in place to monitor everyone, and the schools of course taken over for use in Communist indoctrination. To teach madness, in other words, and an aggressive madness at that.
We helped South Vietnam, which in the early days was run by an unattractive dictator, but which in later days was run by a much more benign group of folks, who actually started implementing much needed reforms in the direction of political liberalization and what might then have honestly been described as social justice. Land reform was undertaken, in specific, to overturn centuries of what I recall as de facto feudalism.
We won the war. We kicked the NVA and VC’s asses in 1968 and 1969, and forced them to the negotiating table. In 1972, the war was over in the South. You could drive anywhere in the country without protection safely. The invading troops were destroyed and incapacitated.
Then we lost the war over here. Communist propaganda caused OUR OWN PEOPLE to give up, willingly, even enthusiastically, the gains won with so much death, so much pain, and after the expenditure of so much treasure.
The effectiveness of the propaganda was such that I would argue VIETNAM INVADED AMERICA. Rather, Communism as a creed did. They tried to take over our nation, and failed. Barely, but only after many, many gains in our social sphere.
Today, we are seeing the same madness in our streets, the same counter-rational slogans, the same pointless destruction, and same alliance forged with madness, decay and death.
I really think the riots could be seen as the second phase of the conflict fought all those years ago. I CERTAINLY think this is how all the old radicals, the old lunatics, see it. They could have learned from our chosen failure in Vietnam. They could have seen the boat people and realized that they were siding with violent fascists. But they didn’t. They haven’t.
It is unfathomable to me, the sheer extent of this betrayal of basic morality, basic good sense, and basic humanity. None of this is complicated, and most of these assholes have high IQ’s. The leaders, I mean.