Nash, you can't be that thick.
Do you deny Al places blame on the Nixon administration for "screwing up the in the same ways they did in Viet Nam"?
Do you deny that if you blame the two "key players" from the Nixon administration you are blaming, by extension, Nixon as well? After all, he was Commander in Chief, head of his administration.
My post points out that it was Johnson who got us in and who truly screwed it up. Nixon got us out, albeit by widening the war.
Now to "Mr. Nixon's War". No matter how many Google hits you got on it, it's odd that such an unknown phrase
I made up is the title...in QUOTES... of a PBS segment, don't you think?
At the time, the loony left began calling it "Mr. Nixon's War" almost as soon as Nixon took office.
PBS not good enough for you?
Gerald Early: Review of Taylor Branch's At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 From the fires of these wars over race and poverty at home and Third World nationalism abroad came a resurgent, newly populist American conservatism that has become a vital, if not the dominant, force in American political life since the 1968 election of Republican Richard Nixon as President on a platform of "law and order" and "peace with honor." ("Peace with honor" turned out to mean five more years of escalated bloodletting in Vietnam in what became Mr. Nixon's War.)
Note that while the author doesn't use quotations, he captializes War. Why would that be? War shouldn't be capitalized should it?
Hmmm.. maybe something from the enemy.
The '1205 Document': Another View An interview with Hoang Tuan, editor of Nhan Dan, revealed that his country is preparing for four more years of war if President Nixon... is reelected. Tuan went on to state that the United States bombing and mining had created difficulties, and that Mr. Nixon's war is 10 times more barbarous than his predecessor's. These remarks are almost exact duplicates of Quang's June 26th speech.
Well, how about President Johnson then, as quoted by Mike Wallace
here :
...and when the time came for Johnson to guide us past the exhibits, I honored his request and did not ask about Vietnam. But to my astonishment, he brought it up himself. We'd just finished talking about the critical challenges that a commander in chief had to confront in the nuclear age when, out of the blue -- without a hint or warning of any kind—the words came pouring out of him in a torrent:
"Throughout our history, our public has been prone to attach presidents' names to the international difficulties. You will recall the War of 1812 was branded as Mr. Madison's War, and the Mexican War was Mr. Polk's War, and the Civil War or the War Between the States was Mr. Lincoln's War, and World War One was Mr. Wilson's War, and World War Two was Mr. Roosevelt's War, and Korea was Mr. Truman's War, and President Kennedy was spared that cruel action because his period was known as Mr. McNamara's War. And then it became Mr. Johnson's War, and now they refer to it as Mr. Nixon's War in talking about getting out. I think it is very cruel to have that burden placed upon a president, because he is trying to follow a course that he devotedly believes is in the best interest of his nation. And if those presidents hadn't stood up for what was right during those periods, we wouldn't have this country what it is today."
There goes YOUR strawman.
Al's comment mirrors those of the loony left during Nixon's Presidency. It shows a lack of knowledge of the history of US involvement in Viet Nam, as usual.
There's Al's strawman; the old lie that it was Nixon and his administration that "screwed up Viet Nam".
I think if you had been there....kid....you wouldn't have even bothered with this red herring to get folks off the trail of your becoming Drifty's dittohead.
Age doesn't necessarily impart much but there's value to have actually been witness to some stuff so that later, when younger generations don't know or refuse to learn the history, one can point out errors from first hand experience.
