America won the war with North Vietnam which ended in 1973. North Vietnam then won a war with South Vietnam, 1974-75, in which we treacherously chose to stop supporting our South Vietnamese ally. The decisive factor here was not any blow struck against America by North Vietnam, but rather Nixon's self-sabotage over Watergate, and the Democratic Congress' hating the Republican Presidency so deeply that they were mad enough to consider the fall of South Vietnam a "victory" for the US Democratic Party.
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Date: 2011-11-27 02:41 am (UTC)