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As Jack Nicholson said in “A Few Good Menâ€, “You want the truth, you can’t handle the truth.â€
FrontPage Magazine has an interview with Vietnam veteran R.J. Del Vecchio. He has written a booklet called, “Myths of Vietnam/Lessons for Iraqâ€
The interview makes for some interesting reading from someone who lived through that time and saw what happened.
The terrible tragedy was that after '72 the flow of supplies from the US to SVN went to a trickle while the flow of supplies to NVN from China and the Soviet Bloc swelled to a torrent. Once Congress removed the President's power to even offer air support to the South if the North invaded again, the North knew they had the edge. They prepared very carefully for almost two years and then sent 20 full divisions into the South in a blitzkrieg that would have made Rommel proud. There were some valiant stands by SVN units, but in the end, the lack of supplies and absence of US air power doomed them.The shame of it was that all we had to do was keep up supplies to SVN and promise the North that any invasion of the South would precipitate massive US bombing both of the invading forces and critical targets in the North, and very likely today Vietnam would be like Korea, with a communist North and a free and prosperous democratic South.
I recommend you read the whole interview.
Posted by The Vorlon at September 14, 2005 8:50 PM