Comments on: Unhappy anniversary: 50 years since the fall of Saigon

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:31:20 +0000

I remember that sad day very well. I was about to graduate college when it collapsed. I do recall the Democrats withholding arms support from South Vietnam – something that does not bode well for Israel with the current Far Left Democratic Party..

By: James Sisco

James Sisco — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:36:20 +0000

The Vietnamese who escaped from their homeland and resettled in the US call April 30th “Black April”.
I live a few miles from “Little Saigon” which is flourishing and is the unofficial host of the annual Tet Parade.
Find yourself a good purveyor of Banh Mi, a very tasty Vietnamese sandwich on French bread.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:35:41 +0000

US Democrats refusal to honor our 1973 Peace Agreement commitments led, very directly, to millions Asians being murdered.
Fighting against communist evil was good—but war is hell. Innocents are killed by both sides.
Good write up here.
https://www.rodmartin.org/p/fifty-years-after-saigon-remembering?r=faen9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:12:43 +0000

Green, what you wore and the color of the country!Dax, it’s your job!

By: Dax

Dax — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:20:52 +0000

Oldflyer, J.J., John Galt III, Richard Aubrey, SHIREHOME, Sgt. Mom, and all other veterans reading this – thank you for your service to our country!

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:54:33 +0000

he was echoing some thoughts

https://substack.com/@jameshowardkunstler/note/p-162324721

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:26:46 +0000

An American fighter pilot meets some Vietnamese former adversaries:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/nguyen-van-bay-and-the-aces-from-the-north-1606486/

By: miguel cervantes,

miguel cervantes, — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:24:29 +0000

because communism doesnt automatically need to violent revolution, that really only started with the Soviet Union, and mostly due to the self inflicted wounds of the czars men,
there was a brief groundswell for Zyuganov the Communist candidate, in 95-96, but there is no appetite for that at least not in the short term, the latter may have though the accumulation in the immediate post soviet era, as the

Putin is not a Communist but a Russian nationalist, in so far as alliance with former proxies like Yemen are useful to his goals,

now was the by the same standard Ho Chi Minh a sincere communist or a nationalist, who used the latter as a rallying cry,
similarly for Mao, who thought the 100 year cycle,

regardless between Stalin Mao and Ho Chi Minh, to use three examples, they racked up a butchers bill of 100 million lives,

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:18:18 +0000

The USSR was composed of about 16 or 17 quasi-independent communist republics.
When the USSR fell apart, NONE of these republics, upon independence, decided to form a new government that was communist.
Of the about 8 nations that formerly comprised the communist Eastern Bloc, none of them maintained a communist govt., after the demise of the USSR.

East and West Germany was the perfect real world laboratory that allowed for a very good comparison of the economic and social progress each nation made post WWII. The results speak for themselves.
East Germany was not forced to reunite with W.Germany; they chose to do so.
The former had the choice of maintaining a communist govt., but they opted not to.

All of this, one would think, would disabuse any normal person of promoting the communist ideology.
But, I would be wrong.

One must conclude that despite communism’s perfect record of misery ( and mass murder) there must be an element of malice, contempt for the common person, in those that promote this ideology.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:57:18 +0000

we didn’t understand the enemy, even when our efforts were playing out, in the pre escalation period, and in the subsequent years, halberstam to take one example, amplified the category error, same with sheehan and co, even 30 years later, the ones making policy like McNamara, Bundy et al, were never held account sufficiently, the loss in Vietnam wasseismic in our culture in our identity, so those who were sent to fight, were made into pitiful wretches, Coming Home, First blood, Deer Hunter Black Sunday, for nearly a decade it took shows like Magnum to portray them as men of ourpose,

we didn’t really understand our islamic adversaries anyways, in te first years of this expeditionaty effort, success like the fall of the Taliban govt were illusory, the events in Iraq were confusing, and hence
demoralization set in,now nearly a quarter century after bin laden’s dispatching, within two years, iraq had been overrrun, by the islamic state, another head of the islamist hydra, of course they were made 10 feet tall after Bataclan and Malbeek, yet they were put in their place for a time, of course most of the signs that I identify islamism have been purged from the security services, as they found easier targets among their own countrymen,