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 Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:31 am Post subject: Thomas Lipscomb: "'Nam: What We Won" |
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While web-surfing for a Thomas Lipscomb perspective on the Kerry/SF180 story, I stumbled upon a recent article by Mr. Lipscomb which presented a brief retrospective and commentary on the U.S. and Southeast Asia in the latter half of the 20th century. As always, excellence from Mr. Lipscomb...
| Quote: | JWR Insight
Thomas H. Lipscomb
Jewish World Review May 3, 2005 / 24 Nisan, 5765
'Nam: What we won
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | The spectacular fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 had Americans glued to their television sets. Millions watched as long lines snaked up stairs at the American Embassy waiting to be rescued by the U.S. military.
It had been barely 10 years since the first U.S. Marine combat troops arrived in Vietnam at Danang. That decade had been punctuated by premature proclamations of victory, promises of "light at the end of the tunnel" and a Tet offensive that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong, but remained a potent Communist propaganda coup in Western media.
"Vietnamization" finally removed almost all America combat troops from Vietnam more than a year before the fall of Saigon. But by then many Americans felt so whip lashed by media accounts of a war they didn't understand they accepted the fall of Saigon as the final humiliating proof of an American defeat.
As the years passed, a collection of myths accrued that today are regarded by many as historical fact. It is time to reexamine them.
Jewish World Review - cont'd |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | As the years passed, a collection of myths accrued that today are regarded by many as historical fact. It is time to reexamine them. |
AMEN!!!!! |
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| Quote: | As "everyone knows" today, Vietnam was a war in which the lives of Americans drafted from the lower classes, disproportionately black and Hispanic, were wasted in a failed American intervention in what was basically a civil war between Vietnamese.
Except, as a former Secretary of the Navy who served in Vietnam as a Marine officer, James Webb, has pointed out, 67 percent of those who served and 73 percent of those who died in Vietnam were volunteers, not draftees. And blacks "comprised 13.1 percent of the serving age group, 12.6 percent of the military and 12.2 percent of the casualties." |
These are numbers you won't hear in primary or secondary school.
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