As a comenter on Wretchard's FB post noted, 'Started it. Fucked it up. Gave it away.'
Indeed.
In 1968 the US Army and Marines crushed the Tet offensive, utterly destroying the Vietcong as a fighting force forever.
From there Creighton Abrams took over and implemented President Nixon's Vietnamization policy which included land reform, crucial to turning the countryside against the communists. Then came the highly successful Cambodian incursion, another victory when the ARVN stopped the Easter offensive of 1972 and finally Operation Linebacker II which forced the communists back to the negotiating table.
It was not until the Democrat congress cut off aid and refused to enforce the Paris Peace Accord that the ARVN collapsed.
You gotta love the Democrat Party. They start a war they can't finish and then have the gall to criticize Nixon because they don't like the way he cleaned up their mess.
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