tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post7419346486676788366..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: An Never Ending StoryAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-40727145974122138632012-05-15T16:07:54.034-07:002012-05-15T16:07:54.034-07:00Ipso, I read that at high school. I thought it a ...Ipso, I read that at high school. I thought it a brilliant historical narrative.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-52035014231787762132012-05-15T16:06:27.712-07:002012-05-15T16:06:27.712-07:00Good!Good!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-17420053680955506542012-05-15T16:06:11.168-07:002012-05-15T16:06:11.168-07:00Anthony, for him it was bad business.Anthony, for him it was bad business.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-73782239349196797082012-05-15T16:05:15.937-07:002012-05-15T16:05:15.937-07:00Quite right, Calvin; I'm being disingenuous. ...Quite right, Calvin; I'm being disingenuous. I actually believe that the war was effectively <i>won</i> militarily with the failure of the communist Tet Offensive. It was lost politically, something I've written about before. If I can just remind you of <i>The greater honour</i>, a piece I published here on 31 January of last year. I think this the most pertinent passage;<br /><br /><i>The simple truth is that the Americans won all of the major battles; that after the Tet Offensive of 1968 the Vietcong, the southern communist guerrillas, were a broken force and the North Vietnamese Army badly bruised. It was, in a sense, their Dien Bien Phu, a reverse of the defeat inflicted on the French in 1954.<br /><br />If the war was ‘lost’ it was not lost by the soldiers but the politicians, by those who mismanaged the affair so dreadfully. There was also the dolchstoss - for once a meaningful expression -, the stab in the back, administered by much of the national press, ill-informed at one moment, lying at the next. Many of the reports verged on a form of treason, doing so much to undermine the morale of the nation, acting little better than a kind of communist fifth-column.</i>Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-33139429465022122852012-05-15T12:18:00.439-07:002012-05-15T12:18:00.439-07:00I saw LBJ as the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzl...I saw LBJ as the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle that JFK needed to win the 1960 election. Kennedy had God on his side, but he must have TEXAS! After that JFK en RFK kept Lyndon pretty much on the sidelines. At the moment I am reading Battle Cry of Freedom. Lincoln towers above many presidents. He intrigues me b/c of his shrewd judgement and his writing/speaking skills!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-9408219676538415662012-05-14T20:44:31.962-07:002012-05-14T20:44:31.962-07:00I would like to post on the behalf of the Johnson ...I would like to post on the behalf of the Johnson family and the American Democratic Party, they find this blog offensive.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-40167075251293090112012-05-14T19:45:25.289-07:002012-05-14T19:45:25.289-07:00Johnson had a lot of damage control to do in the s...Johnson had a lot of damage control to do in the subsequent cover up of the Kennedy assassination; war is big business.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-51597103775160536532012-05-14T17:19:47.589-07:002012-05-14T17:19:47.589-07:00When Johnson quit the Whitehouse in 1969, the Viet...When Johnson quit the Whitehouse in 1969, the Vietnam War was not won, but it was certainly not lost. In fact, the NVA had been so smashed and exhausted by the U. S. response to the Tet Offensive,that Hanoi's leaders were forced to sue for 'peace talks' while the USSR and China worked frantically to resupply them with enough war material to continue fighting. They dragged out those faux discussions in Paris while Red propaganda worked its insidious magic. Poisonous misinformation destroyed the determination of US politicians to continue either to prosecute the war with US personnel or to provide sufficient material to the South Vietnamese forces to offset the support given by China and the USSR to the North. That is how the conflict ended. Both Johnson and Nixon were very ill-advised.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.com