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2021-08-18 Southeast Asia

You'll Never Guess Who Was Also Involved in the 1975 Debacle in Saigon

[Red State] I wrote earlier about how the debacle in Afghanistan may have been intentional because Joe Biden previously said he thought we should just pull out and didn’t need to be concerned about the allies we left behind. "F*** that," he reportedly said in 2010. "We don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it." So it appeared it was always his intent to just pull out, no matter the cost.

That was pretty horrible to read — that indeed he was looking at Vietnam actions as a model of what he could get away with.

But that isn’t all. He blamed Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. But that wasn’t who was responsible. Guess who was involved in 1975, too? You guessed it — Joseph R. Biden and the Congressional Democrats.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-18 00:34|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 NYTimes, March 20, 1975: Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger after a closed‐door meeting with the Senate Armed. Services Committee on military sales to Saudi Arabia, said that the “niggardly” approach of Congress toward military aid, to the Saigon Government was the “approximate cause” for withdrawal of South Vietnamese forces from provinces in the Central Highlands. Mr. Schlesinger saw North Vietnam taking advantage of South Vietnam's defensive move to launch what he described as “a major offensive” particularly in Military Regions. I and II in the northern part of South Vietnam.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-18 09:08|| 2021-08-18 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "Saigon. Sh*t, I was still in Saigon..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 10:32|| 2021-08-18 10:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Nixon was long gone by the time Saigon fell. But don't count on Joe to remember minor details like that, especially when it was Democrats in Congress who withheld military supplies for South Vietnam.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 14:59|| 2021-08-18 14:59|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-18 18:30|| 2021-08-18 18:30|| Front Page Top

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